Context; Recently Finland’s next-generation Olkiluoto 3 nuclear reactor, the largest in Europe, has gone into regular production after months of delays, and Germany ended its nuclear era.
About Olkiluoto 3 nuclear reactor
- Olkiluoto 3, now producing around 14% of the country’s power.
- It is expected to remain operational for “at least the next 60 years”.
- The plant is owned and operated by Teollisuuden Voima (TVO), a subsidiary of Pohjolan Voima
- It is located on Olkiluoto Island, on the shore of the Gulf of Bothnia
- The Olkiluoto plant consists of two boiling water reactors (BWRs), each producing 890 MW of electricity and
- One EPR producing 1,600 MW. This makes unit 3 currently the most powerful nuclear power plant unit in Europe and the third most powerful globally
