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 by AFP Staff Writers Helsinki (AFP) Dec 16, 2021
Finland's long-delayed Olkiluoto 3 nuclear reactor will begin powering up this month and start producing electricity in January next year, the plant's operator announced on Thursday. The Nordic country's nuclear safety authority, STUK, gave permission on Thursday "for making the reactor critical and conducting low power tests," Finnish electricity producer TVO said in a statement. The EPR reactor, built by the French-led Areva-Siemens consortium, is almost twelve years behind its initial scheduled completion date of 2009. Once regular energy production begins, now expected in June 2022, it will supply almost 15 percent of Finland's energy at 1,650 megawatts. "We are now moving step by step with a safety-first attitude towards the moment we have waited for [for] a long time," TVO senior vice president Marjo Mustonen said in the statement. Olkiluoto 3, which will run alongside two existing reactors at Eurajoki on Finland's west coast, was the first nuclear power station to be procured in Europe after the 1986 Chernobyl disaster. But the French-developed EPR reactor model, touted as offering higher power and better safety, has been plagued by delays and cost overruns, leading to bitter compensation disputes between TVO and Areva. Other EPR builds in France and the UK have also been beset with delays, with Hinkley Point in southwest England pushing back its planned electricity production by half a year to mid-2026. Costs have swelled by around 500 million pounds ($705 million, 580 million euros) to as much as 23 billion pounds.
Framatome selected to provide incore instrumentation upgrade at Surry NPP Paris, France (SPX) Dec 15, 2021 Framatome was awarded the contract to upgrade the incore instrumentation systems for units 1 and 2 at Dominion Energy's Surry Nuclear Power Station as part of its Subsequent License Renewal program. Framatome will replace the existing movable incore detector systems with new, state-of-the-art fixed incore detector systems (FIDS). The FIDS will play a critical role in the plant's operational improvement as an integral part of the instrumentation and control (I&C) system. Implementation of the ... read more
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