Finland starts a new nuclear reactor and builds facility to store spent fuel for the next 100 years

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The plant had originally begun construction in 2005 but the building was stopped. Finland then went in for solar and wind but found they needed to buy power from Russia and Sweden. Ths they decided to finish this plant which is being filed up now. And they plan more.

They know, you cannot run a grid on solar and wind.


Finland currently produces about 30% of its energy from four nuclear power plants that were constructed in the late 70s and early 80s. The country is now about the start producing energy from its fifth nuclear plant. After decades of work including long construction delays, loading of nuclear fuel at the new site started in March.



“Through the fuel loading, Olkiluoto 3 is now a nuclear power plant, and we are a significant step closer to the realisation of Finland’s greatest single act for the climate,” said Marjo Mustonen, senior vice president for electricity production at TVO.
OL3 is scheduled to be connected to the grid in October this year, with regular electricity production due to start in February 2022. According to the commissioning programme, the plant will produce 1-3 terawatt-hours (TWh) of electricity with varying power output during the period between grid connection and the start of regular electricity production. Once operating at full capacity, the OL3 plant will produce about 13 TWh of electricity annually and meet about 14% of Finland’s electricity demand.

Once that reactor is online about half of Finland’s total energy needs will come from nuclear power. A sixth nuclear plant is currently under construction and expected to be producing power by 2029. That would bring the total nuclear output to about 60% of the nation’s power needs, putting them on the path to eliminate coal by 2030 and reach carbon neutrality by 2035. These are achievable goals that would make American environmentalists green with envy.

Nuclear power is so popular in Finland that even the Green Party has toned down its opposition:


Last month, four municipal election candidates from the traditionally anti-nuclear Green Party in Finland published an opinion piece in which they stated that humanity no longer has the luxury of opposing nuclear power.

A year later a group called the Green League removed opposition to existing nuclear plants from its platform.


After much discussion, the Green League voted to relax its anti-nuclear stance at a recent party convention ahead of the country’s parliamentary elections set to be held April 2019. The party endorsed a technology-neutral, market-friendly attitude to cleaner energy that still rejects nuclear power for economic reasons but demands other emissions-free energy resources replace any retiring reactors.

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The plant had originally begun construction in 2005 but the building was stopped. Finland then went in for solar and wind but found they needed to buy power from Russia and Sweden. Ths they decided to finish this plant which is being filed up now. And they plan more.

They know, you cannot run a grid on solar and wind.

Finland currently produces about 30% of its energy from four nuclear power plants that were constructed in the late 70s and early 80s. The country is now about the start producing energy from its fifth nuclear plant. After decades of work including long construction delays, loading of nuclear fuel at the new site started in March.
“Through the fuel loading, Olkiluoto 3 is now a nuclear power plant, and we are a significant step closer to the realisation of Finland’s greatest single act for the climate,” said Marjo Mustonen, senior vice president for electricity production at TVO.
OL3 is scheduled to be connected to the grid in October this year, with regular electricity production due to start in February 2022. According to the commissioning programme, the plant will produce 1-3 terawatt-hours (TWh) of electricity with varying power output during the period between grid connection and the start of regular electricity production. Once operating at full capacity, the OL3 plant will produce about 13 TWh of electricity annually and meet about 14% of Finland’s electricity demand.​

Once that reactor is online about half of Finland’s total energy needs will come from nuclear power. A sixth nuclear plant is currently under construction and expected to be producing power by 2029. That would bring the total nuclear output to about 60% of the nation’s power needs, putting them on the path to eliminate coal by 2030 and reach carbon neutrality by 2035. These are achievable goals that would make American environmentalists green with envy.
Nuclear power is so popular in Finland that even the Green Party has toned down its opposition:
Last month, four municipal election candidates from the traditionally anti-nuclear Green Party in Finland published an opinion piece in which they stated that humanity no longer has the luxury of opposing nuclear power.

A year later a group called the Green League removed opposition to existing nuclear plants from its platform.
After much discussion, the Green League voted to relax its anti-nuclear stance at a recent party convention ahead of the country’s parliamentary elections set to be held April 2019. The party endorsed a technology-neutral, market-friendly attitude to cleaner energy that still rejects nuclear power for economic reasons but demands other emissions-free energy resources replace any retiring reactors.

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Good move. TVA is about 41% plus electrical production from nuclear as part of their well diversified program. They've got their sh#t together.
 
The plant had originally begun construction in 2005 but the building was stopped. Finland then went in for solar and wind but found they needed to buy power from Russia and Sweden. Ths they decided to finish this plant which is being filed up now. And they plan more.

They know, you cannot run a grid on solar and wind.

Finland currently produces about 30% of its energy from four nuclear power plants that were constructed in the late 70s and early 80s. The country is now about the start producing energy from its fifth nuclear plant. After decades of work including long construction delays, loading of nuclear fuel at the new site started in March.
“Through the fuel loading, Olkiluoto 3 is now a nuclear power plant, and we are a significant step closer to the realisation of Finland’s greatest single act for the climate,” said Marjo Mustonen, senior vice president for electricity production at TVO.
OL3 is scheduled to be connected to the grid in October this year, with regular electricity production due to start in February 2022. According to the commissioning programme, the plant will produce 1-3 terawatt-hours (TWh) of electricity with varying power output during the period between grid connection and the start of regular electricity production. Once operating at full capacity, the OL3 plant will produce about 13 TWh of electricity annually and meet about 14% of Finland’s electricity demand.​

Once that reactor is online about half of Finland’s total energy needs will come from nuclear power. A sixth nuclear plant is currently under construction and expected to be producing power by 2029. That would bring the total nuclear output to about 60% of the nation’s power needs, putting them on the path to eliminate coal by 2030 and reach carbon neutrality by 2035. These are achievable goals that would make American environmentalists green with envy.
Nuclear power is so popular in Finland that even the Green Party has toned down its opposition:
Last month, four municipal election candidates from the traditionally anti-nuclear Green Party in Finland published an opinion piece in which they stated that humanity no longer has the luxury of opposing nuclear power.

A year later a group called the Green League removed opposition to existing nuclear plants from its platform.
After much discussion, the Green League voted to relax its anti-nuclear stance at a recent party convention ahead of the country’s parliamentary elections set to be held April 2019. The party endorsed a technology-neutral, market-friendly attitude to cleaner energy that still rejects nuclear power for economic reasons but demands other emissions-free energy resources replace any retiring reactors.

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Good move. TVA is about 41% plus electrical production from nuclear as part of their well diversified program. They've got their sh#t together.
but why does the left in America hate nuclear so fucking much?
 
The plant had originally begun construction in 2005 but the building was stopped. Finland then went in for solar and wind but found they needed to buy power from Russia and Sweden. Ths they decided to finish this plant which is being filed up now. And they plan more.

They know, you cannot run a grid on solar and wind.

Finland currently produces about 30% of its energy from four nuclear power plants that were constructed in the late 70s and early 80s. The country is now about the start producing energy from its fifth nuclear plant. After decades of work including long construction delays, loading of nuclear fuel at the new site started in March.
“Through the fuel loading, Olkiluoto 3 is now a nuclear power plant, and we are a significant step closer to the realisation of Finland’s greatest single act for the climate,” said Marjo Mustonen, senior vice president for electricity production at TVO.
OL3 is scheduled to be connected to the grid in October this year, with regular electricity production due to start in February 2022. According to the commissioning programme, the plant will produce 1-3 terawatt-hours (TWh) of electricity with varying power output during the period between grid connection and the start of regular electricity production. Once operating at full capacity, the OL3 plant will produce about 13 TWh of electricity annually and meet about 14% of Finland’s electricity demand.​

Once that reactor is online about half of Finland’s total energy needs will come from nuclear power. A sixth nuclear plant is currently under construction and expected to be producing power by 2029. That would bring the total nuclear output to about 60% of the nation’s power needs, putting them on the path to eliminate coal by 2030 and reach carbon neutrality by 2035. These are achievable goals that would make American environmentalists green with envy.
Nuclear power is so popular in Finland that even the Green Party has toned down its opposition:
Last month, four municipal election candidates from the traditionally anti-nuclear Green Party in Finland published an opinion piece in which they stated that humanity no longer has the luxury of opposing nuclear power.

A year later a group called the Green League removed opposition to existing nuclear plants from its platform.
After much discussion, the Green League voted to relax its anti-nuclear stance at a recent party convention ahead of the country’s parliamentary elections set to be held April 2019. The party endorsed a technology-neutral, market-friendly attitude to cleaner energy that still rejects nuclear power for economic reasons but demands other emissions-free energy resources replace any retiring reactors.

...​



Good move. TVA is about 41% plus electrical production from nuclear as part of their well diversified program. They've got their sh#t together.
but why does the left in America hate nuclear so fucking much?
Well ... they hate everything else that makes sense.
 
The plant had originally begun construction in 2005 but the building was stopped. Finland then went in for solar and wind but found they needed to buy power from Russia and Sweden. Ths they decided to finish this plant which is being filed up now. And they plan more.

They know, you cannot run a grid on solar and wind.

Finland currently produces about 30% of its energy from four nuclear power plants that were constructed in the late 70s and early 80s. The country is now about the start producing energy from its fifth nuclear plant. After decades of work including long construction delays, loading of nuclear fuel at the new site started in March.
“Through the fuel loading, Olkiluoto 3 is now a nuclear power plant, and we are a significant step closer to the realisation of Finland’s greatest single act for the climate,” said Marjo Mustonen, senior vice president for electricity production at TVO.
OL3 is scheduled to be connected to the grid in October this year, with regular electricity production due to start in February 2022. According to the commissioning programme, the plant will produce 1-3 terawatt-hours (TWh) of electricity with varying power output during the period between grid connection and the start of regular electricity production. Once operating at full capacity, the OL3 plant will produce about 13 TWh of electricity annually and meet about 14% of Finland’s electricity demand.​

Once that reactor is online about half of Finland’s total energy needs will come from nuclear power. A sixth nuclear plant is currently under construction and expected to be producing power by 2029. That would bring the total nuclear output to about 60% of the nation’s power needs, putting them on the path to eliminate coal by 2030 and reach carbon neutrality by 2035. These are achievable goals that would make American environmentalists green with envy.
Nuclear power is so popular in Finland that even the Green Party has toned down its opposition:
Last month, four municipal election candidates from the traditionally anti-nuclear Green Party in Finland published an opinion piece in which they stated that humanity no longer has the luxury of opposing nuclear power.

A year later a group called the Green League removed opposition to existing nuclear plants from its platform.
After much discussion, the Green League voted to relax its anti-nuclear stance at a recent party convention ahead of the country’s parliamentary elections set to be held April 2019. The party endorsed a technology-neutral, market-friendly attitude to cleaner energy that still rejects nuclear power for economic reasons but demands other emissions-free energy resources replace any retiring reactors.

...​



Good move. TVA is about 41% plus electrical production from nuclear as part of their well diversified program. They've got their sh#t together.
but why does the left in America hate nuclear so fucking much?
Beats me. Old songs of "building machines that they can't control, bury the wastes in great big hole", prejudice going back to the bombing of Hiroshima, Events like 3 Mile Island, Chernobyl, Fukushima/Diiachi, continued cleanup at Hanford, real and/or perceived transportation problems and dangers associated with taking wastes to (though I do not remember a single actual event) long-term underground storage, fears of technology they do not understand, movies like "China Syndrome", medical concerns just from being or working near its production or use (my own mom, had little rows of skin cancers that repeated like came up around her neck, all her life after she helped build us "the bomb" in the first place), distrust of government or (private) industry taking dangerous shortcuts or buying from the lowest builder, etc.
It is like any prejudice, the fact that most are operating cost-effective, well maintained and safe does not outweigh in their minds, the problems that have occurred in the past. It is not contained to people on the left, though, like you, I think many on the right see the cost benefit vs risk in a more accurate light, though they do not generally understand the technology and safeguards either.
Would you want to live 2 miles down the prevailing wind direction from a nuclear power plant, or you like me, and most that approve, but not in their backyard?
 
Spent fuel (often mistakenly called, "nuclear waste") is perpetually recyclable, using current technology. A hundred years from now, rational humans will wonder why they wasted time on a storage facility when the spent fuel could have immediately been reprocessed for future use.
 
With the cooperation of the left wing media, lefties are skilled at bogus claims relating to energy. The American left loves to hold up Scandinavian countries as examples of social welfare projects and they leave out the fact that the GDP of Norway, Sweden and Denmark relies on oil exploration. Finland is left in the cold (literally) so the logical step is to acknowledge that windmills and solar panels in that latitude don't work while Russia inflates the cost of fossil fuel.
 
The plant had originally begun construction in 2005 but the building was stopped. Finland then went in for solar and wind but found they needed to buy power from Russia and Sweden. Ths they decided to finish this plant which is being filed up now. And they plan more.
Yeah, I saw a science article about that nuclear waste storage site recently. Pretty cool.

Good for Finland.
 
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Spent fuel (often mistakenly called, "nuclear waste") is perpetually recyclable, using current technology. A hundred years from now, rational humans will wonder why they wasted time on a storage facility when the spent fuel could have immediately been reprocessed for future use.
Spent fuel is not pepetually recyclable, and recycling produces waste. albeit a smaller volume. And recycling is very expensive.

The US doesn't recycle. Recycling is not economically sound since new uranium is plentiful and cheap.
 
but why does the left in America hate nuclear so fucking much?
Not everyone on "the left" hates nuclear energy.
Some see it as an answer to reducing greenhouse gases.
If they say that too loud though "the right" will suddenly decide they hate it.
 
Within 100 years, humanity will probably have the technology to safely and economically dispose of nuclear waste by launching it into space.
 
Nuclear energy is amazing and incredibly safe with all the advancements and safeties we have created over the years. The problems is people who knew nothing about it bitched so much it was halted in the USA and never allowed to develop much again.
 
I dont believe in the doomsday predictions of liberals about global warming

But the Fins are far more serious about preventing the consequences of co2 than libs in America are
 

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