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00:02 Report by Lisa Louis

00:25 Juha Poikola, public relations manager TVO
00:58 Juha Poikola, public relations manager TVO
01:08 - 01:20 ©Tapani Karjanlahti/TVO
01:35 Veli-Pekka Tynkkynen, Professor in Russian Environmental Studies, Helsinki University
02:42  Pasi Tuohimaa Communications Manager Posiva

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UPSOT  - That’s the reactor building. The turbine, where we are next going, is that building.
Finland’s new nuclear reactor is one of the biggest in the world. It’s called Olkiluoto 3 and was commissioned in 2023.
It has increased the nuclear power share in Finland’s electricity supply to about 38 percent – ten points higher than three years ago.
0’23 – 0’35
SOT – Juha Poikola, public relations manager TVO 
Why is it so popular today? It’s energy security. So, reliable  24-7 electricity. So many countries are looking for new nuclear.  They come and visit us and ask our experiences.
But Olkiluoto 3’s price tag almost quadrupled to 11bn euros. And completing it took 18 years – instead of four as initially planned. These cost overruns prompted TVO to cancel an additional reactor.
And yet, the operators insist the plant’s economic benefits outweigh its costs.
0’58 – 1’08
SOT – Juha Poikola, public relations manager TVO
It’s expensive to build, yes. But the benefit comes to the consumers. So now, consumers are benefiting from low electricity prices.

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Nuclear power has also helped Helsinki gain a new kind of independence from Moscow. Half of Finland’s energy imports used to come from its neighboring country. That share is now near zero.
1:21
Helsinki decided to make the shift after the start of Moscow’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine. But experts stress the country still imports large parts of its uranium from Russia.
1’35 – 2’03
SOT – Veli-Pekka Tynkkynen, Professor in Russian Environmental Studies, Helsinki University
The Finnish energy company Fortum it has tried for all these three years to substitute Russian uranium deliveries, but hasn't been able to do so in almost 4 years. To build nuclear power plants nowadays is because of the high safety standards and the security standards, it is very expensive. We have biofuels, we have wind power, other renewables. This is the model that is kind of resilient in this very moment.
Renewables have also grown their share in the energy mix: onshore wind farms now make up for 24 percent of electricity production – instead of 14 percent in 2022. 
And yet, nuclear plant operator TVO believes in a future with additional nuclear reactors.
The company will soon inaugurate this nuclear waste disposal site that has been in the making for decades.
A tunnel system 400 meters beneath the ground where the waste of the country’s existing nuclear plants is to be stored for good.
2’42 – 3’00
SOT – Pasi Tuohimaa, communications manager Posiva
We do have a solution, that we can take care safely of the spent nuclear fuel. Of course, the same model can be copied in almost any countries. To excavating tunnels is not that difficult. Finland is full of bedrock. So there can be other places.

The Finnish government aims to speed up the construction of new nuclear plants. But with Finland’s overall onshore wind capacity planned to double within the next decade, renewables are set to remain the default in the immediate future. 
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