{"id":570039,"date":"2023-04-17T11:52:03","date_gmt":"2023-04-17T06:22:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=570039"},"modified":"2023-04-17T11:52:03","modified_gmt":"2023-04-17T06:22:03","slug":"after-18-yrs-europes-largest-nuclear-reactor-to-start-regular-output-in-finland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/after-18-yrs-europes-largest-nuclear-reactor-to-start-regular-output-in-finland\/","title":{"rendered":"After 18 yrs, Europe&#8217;s largest nuclear reactor to start regular output in Finland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Finland&#8217;s much-delayed Olkiluoto 3 (OL3) nuclear reactor, Europe&#8217;s largest, will begin regular output on Sunday, its operator said on Saturday, boosting energy security in a region to which Russia has cut gas and power supplies.<\/p>\n<p>Nuclear power remains controversial in Europe, primarily due to safety concerns, and news of OL3&#8217;s start-up comes as Germany on Saturday switches off its last three remaining reactors, while Sweden, France, Britain and others plan new developments.<\/p>\n<p>OL3&#8217;s operator Teollisuuden Voima (TVO), which is owned by Finnish utility Fortum and a consortium of energy and industrial companies, has said the unit is expected to meet around 14% of Finland&#8217;s electricity demand, reducing the need for imports from Sweden and Norway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finland&#8217;s much-delayed Olkiluoto 3 (OL3) nuclear reactor, Europe&#8217;s largest, will begin regular output on Sunday, its operator said on Saturday, boosting energy security in a region to which Russia has cut gas and power supplies. Nuclear power remains controversial in Europe, primarily due to safety concerns, and news of OL3&#8217;s start-up comes as Germany on Saturday switches off its last three remaining reactors, while Sweden, France, Britain and others plan new developments. OL3&#8217;s operator Teollisuuden Voima (TVO), which is owned by Finnish utility Fortum and a consortium of energy and industrial companies, has said the unit is expected to meet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[141,130,236],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-570039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers","category-power-hindustantimes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=570039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570039\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}