Olkiluoto Nuclear Power Plant

The Olkiluoto Nuclear Power Plant (Finnish: Olkiluodon ydinvoimalaitos) is on Olkiluoto Island (fi), which is on the shore of the Gulf of Bothnia in the municipality of Eurajoki in western Finland. It is one of Finland's two nuclear power plants, the other being the two-unit Loviisa Nuclear Power Plant. The Olkiluoto plant is operated by Teollisuuden Voima (TVO), a nuclear plant operator that is owned by a consortium of Finnish industrial and power companies.

The plant consists of two operating units, both Boiling Water Reactors (BWR) with 880 MW each, and a third unit under construction.

The third unit is the first European Pressurized Reactor (EPR) to have gone into construction, in 2005. Various problems have delayed its expected entry into service to no earlier than 2015, six years after the originally scheduled date of 2009.

In July 2010, the Finnish parliament granted a license for a fourth reactor to be built at the site.

Read more about Olkiluoto Nuclear Power Plant:  Units 1 and 2, Unit 3, Unit 4, Onkalo Spent Nuclear Fuel Repository

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