{"id":570271,"date":"2023-04-18T10:29:35","date_gmt":"2023-04-18T04:59:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=570271"},"modified":"2023-04-18T11:23:08","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T05:53:08","slug":"europes-most-powerful-nuclear-reactor-kicks-off-in-finland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/europes-most-powerful-nuclear-reactor-kicks-off-in-finland\/","title":{"rendered":"Europe\u2019s most powerful nuclear reactor kicks off in Finland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Finland\u2019s much-delayed and costly new nuclear reactor, Europe\u2019s most powerful by production capacity, has completed a test phase lasting over a year and started regular output, boosting the Nordic country\u2019s electricity self-sufficiency significantly.<\/p>\n<p>The Olkiluoto 3 reactor, which has 1,600-megawatt capacity, was connected into the Finnish national power grid in March 2022 and kicked off regular production on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Operator Teollisuuden Voima, or TVO, tweeted that \u201cOlkiluoto 3 is now ready\u201d after a delay of 14 years from the original plan.<\/p>\n<p>It will help Finland to achieve its carbon neutrality targets and increase energy security at a time when European countries have cut oil, gas and other power supplies from Russia, Finland\u2019s neighbour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finland\u2019s much-delayed and costly new nuclear reactor, Europe\u2019s most powerful by production capacity, has completed a test phase lasting over a year and started regular output, boosting the Nordic country\u2019s electricity self-sufficiency significantly. The Olkiluoto 3 reactor, which has 1,600-megawatt capacity, was connected into the Finnish national power grid in March 2022 and kicked off regular production on Sunday. Operator Teollisuuden Voima, or TVO, tweeted that \u201cOlkiluoto 3 is now ready\u201d after a delay of 14 years from the original plan. It will help Finland to achieve its carbon neutrality targets and increase energy security at a time when European [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,247,150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-570271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-tribune","category-the-tribune"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570271","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\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=570271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}