Olkiluoto NPP
Technical Data | |
Olkiluoto NPP (OL) Coordinates: 61°14'13N 21°26'27E[1] | |
General information | |
Operator: | Teollisuuden Voima Oyj (TVO) |
Capacities / Effectiveness: | (electrical output / total efficiency factor) |
OL-1 | 860 MW[2] / 33 %[3] |
OL-2 | 860 MW[2] |
OL-3 | 1600 MW[4] |
OL-4 | 1000-1800 MW[5] |
Type of reactor / Manufacturer: | |
OL-1 | BWR-2500[6][7] / Asea-Atom/Westinghouse |
OL-2 | BWR-2500[8][7] / Asea-Atom/Westinghouse |
OL-3 | EPR (PWR)[4] / Areva/Siemens |
OL-4 | ? (BWR/PWR)[5] / ? |
Fuel: | (Amount of uranium (tU) / number of fuel elements) |
OL-1 | 90 / 500[9] |
OL-2 | 90 / 500[9] |
OL-3 | 128 / 241[9] |
OL-4 | 100-150 / ?[10] |
Employees: | 660[10] |
Safety issues | |
Radiation doses: | (doses (year) / permitted) |
OL-1 | 1.18 manSv (total OL1+2) (2007) / 2.15 manSv[9] |
OL-2 | 1.18 manSv (total OL1+2) (2007) / 2.15 manSv[9] |
OL-3 | |
OL-4 | |
Waste: | (until 2007) |
Spent fuel | 1197 tonnes HM[11] |
LMAW | 6100 m3 (65 TBq)[11] |
Greenhouse releases: | |
Thermal impacts: | (increases of sea water temperature) |
OL-1 | 13.3 °C[10] |
OL-2 | 13.3 °C[10] |
OL-3 | 11.4 °C[10] |
OL-4 | 11.7 °C[10] |
Accidents: | |
Population of the area: | |
Construction data | |
Construction started/finished: | |
OL-1 | 1974/02/01 / 1978/09/02[6] |
OL-2 | 1975/11/01 / 1980/02/18[8] |
OL-3 | 2005/08/12 / N/A |
OL-4 | not yet |
Delays: | |
Start of operation / planned closure: | |
OL-1 | 1979/10/10[6] / 2019/09/14[12] |
OL-2 | 1982/07/10[8] / 2022/07/14[13] |
OL-3 | 2013[14] / 2073[7] |
OL-4 | 2018 / 2078[10] |
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Summary
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Olkiluoto is the location of one of two nuclear power plants in Finland. It is situated on the Western coast of Finland, some 250 kilometers northwest of Helsinki. Also on the site of the NPP is a final disposal site for low and medium level radioactive waste. The Finnish final repository for high level radioactive waste is proposed to be at this location, too.[1]
Olkiluoto is an island only separated by a narrow stretch of water from the mainland, connected by a bridge.[7] Olkiluoto is owned by the nuclear industry. It is part of the municipalty of Eurajoki, but the next (and biggest) city is Rauma, located only some 25 kilometers south of the nuclear power plant[7].
Nowadays, the uranium for the Olkiluoto units is supplied under long-term contracts, mainly from Canada and Australia. This uranium is enriched in Russia and the EU area. Fuel assemblies delivered to Olkiluoto are made in Germany, Spain and Sweden.[9]
The construction of the Olkiluoto-3 reactor by AREVA and Siemens is two years behind schedule (and already four years behind the proposed point of time as it was discussed when the parliament agreed with the plans in 2000[15]) and will probably be 50% (later sources say: 100%[15]) above the original budget[16].
Between 1977 and 2008 a total of 94 incidents of the level INES-1 and a total of 7 incidents of the level INES-2 (INES = International Nuclear Event Scale) had been registered by the Finnish authorities for all nuclear facilities[17]. The published data does not provide detailed information about the accidents and the reactors where they occured.
Critics
contact details of critical groups working against this facility
- group name, phone, email, website, postal address
- Greenpeace
- Iso Roobertinkatu 20-22 A, FIN-00120 Helsinki, Finland
- phone: +358 9 622 922 00, +358 9 698 6317
- fax: +358 9 622 922 22, email: info.nordic AT greenpeace.org[18]
- http://www.greenpeace.org/finland/
Links
links to operator and critical websites
- Operator of Olkiluoto: http://www.tvo.fi/ Finnish/English
- Critical view on Olkiluoto:
- http://olkiluoto.info English/Finnish/Swedish
- http://www.ecology.at/nni/index.php?p=site&s=207 English
- http://www.contratom.de/2.0/index.php?mod=standort&id=504 German
- Authorities' information on Olkiluoto:
Olkiluoto on the Nuclear Baltic Map: nr. 30
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Olkiluoto_Nuclear_Power_Plant&oldid=353868219 - April 18, 2010
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 http://www.tvo.fi/www/page/ol1andol2/ - December 10, 2010
- ↑ http://www.stuk.fi/ydinturvallisuus/ydinvoimalaitokset/olkiluoto/en_GB/olkiluoto_tekniset
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 http://www.iaea.org/cgi-bin/db.page.pl/pris.prdeta.htm?country=FI&site=OLKILUOTO&units=&refno=5&link=HOT&sort=&sortlong=Alphabetic - December 10, 2010
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 http://www.tvo.fi/www/page/2855/ - December 10, 2010
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 http://www.iaea.org/cgi-bin/db.page.pl/pris.prdeta.htm?country=FI&site=OLKILUOTO&units=&refno=3&link=HOT&sort=&sortlong=Alphabetic - December 10, 2010
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Olkiluoto&oldid=68707517 as at April 18, 2010
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 http://www.iaea.org/cgi-bin/db.page.pl/pris.prdeta.htm?country=FI&site=OLKILUOTO&units=&refno=4&link=HOT&sort=&sortlong=Alphabetic - December 10, 2010
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 9.4 9.5 http://www.tem.fi/files/21275/38981_TEM_Nuclear_Energy_in_Finland_LR.pdf
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 10.4 10.5 10.6 http://www.tem.fi/files/18506/YVA_selostusraportti_EN_Secured.pdf - December 11, 2010
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 http://www.stuk.fi/ydinturvallisuus/ydinjatteet/ydinjate/en_GB/ydinjate/_files/12222632510021180/default/fin_country_profile.pdf - December 11, 2010
- ↑ http://www.contratom.de/2.0/index.php?mod=standort&id=194 - December 10, 2010
- ↑ http://www.contratom.de/2.0/index.php?mod=standort&id=506 - December 10, 2010
- ↑ http://www.contratom.de/2.0/index.php?mod=artikel&id=30359 - December 11, 2010
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 http://www.contratom.de/2.0/index.php?mod=artikel&id=30328 - December 10, 2010
- ↑ http://www.ecology.at/nni/index.php?p=site&s=207 - December 10, 2010
- ↑ http://www.stuk.fi/ydinturvallisuus/ydinvoimalaitokset/vakavuusasteikko/en_GB/suomentapahtumat/
- ↑ For protection against automatical email address robots searching for addresses to send spam to them this email address has been made unreadable for them. To get a correct mail address you have to displace "AT" by the @-symbol.