Finland’s 10-Year Wait for a Nuclear Reactor Just Got Longer

  • TVO cites new information from supplier for 5-month delay
  • Olkiluoto-3 reactor will be 10 years behind schedule
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Finland will have to add another five months to the decade-long wait to start production at a nuclear reactor once billed as the world’s biggest.

Olkiluoto-3, able to power about 3 million homes, will be delayed until May 2019 from its previously expected to start at the end of next year, according to Teollisuuden Voima Oyj, the Helsinki-based utility that will operate the unit. Areva SA, the supplier, said it needed more time to adjust the production schedule.