International Anti-nuclear Network Meeting December 2008 in Frankfurt/Main / Finland Workshop

This workshop was about the current nuclear situation in Finland, about existing and planned facilities and about the resistance and its history. At the moment only few notes of the workshops are documentated here. Hopefully there will be more soon.

In Finland two nuclear power plant sites are located in Olkiluoto at the East Coast and Loviisa at the South Coast. Both in distance of between one to some hundred kilometers from Helsinki.

The Island of Olkiluoto is owned by the comnpany TVO. The owners of TVO are Pohjolan Voima (ca. 58 %), Fortum (ca. 25 %) and other energy providing and industrial companies. Pohjolan Voima is owned by UPM Kymmene (40 %), Stora Enso (Forrest industry) and others.

The Loviisa NPP site is owned by Fortum, which is a partly state owned company. In Loviisa two VVER reactors are situated: Loviisa I and Loviisa II. In 2008 an application to build a third reactor at this place was submitted by Fortum. The low and medium level radioactive waste of these reactors are final disposed in the deep ground of the site.