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Finland to decide on new nuclear reactors in 2010: govt
by Staff Writers
Helsinki (AFP) May 9, 2008


Finland's government is planning to take a decision on whether to build new nuclear reactors in 2010, ahead of parliamentary elections in 2011, the ministry of economic affairs said Friday.

Electricity producer Teollisuuden Voima (TVO) submitted an application on April 25 to the ministry to build the country's sixth reactor, in Olkiluoto, southwestern Finland.

In addition to TVO, utilities Fortum and Fennovoima are hoping to build new nuclear reactors and are expected to send their applications to the ministry by the end of this year or in the beginning of 2009.

"These applications can be processed at the same time, because it is such an important decision. The government will make one decision, which is scheduled for the beginning of 2010," Eeva Kalli, a special advisor to the economic affairs minister, told AFP.

The Finnish parliament also has to approve the decision.

Finland's fifth nuclear reactor, the world's first next generation pressurised water reactor, is being built in Olkiluoto, in southwest Finland, by French firm Areva and Germany's Siemens.

With civil nuclear power on the agenda again in many countries, partly due to fears over carbon emissions fuelling climate change, and also due to energy security, the new Finnish generator has been studied by many foreign governments.

That next generation model was cited as an example by the British government, which recently decided to construct a new generation of nuclear reactors.

Some 25 percent of electricity consumed in Finland is produced in nuclear power plants.

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