Blogposts tagged 'Olkiluoto'

New nuclear reactor's waste is seven times more hazardous

Posted by jamie - 3 February 2009 at 11:47am - 8 Comments

The construction site of the EPR reactor at Olkiluoto, Finland

The waste from this EPR in Finland will be seven times more hazardous than existing nuclear reactors © Greenpeace/Cobbing

Thanks to Justin at Nuclear Reaction for allowing us to reproduce this scandalous story:

Following the French government's announcement that it wants to build a second EPR (European Pressurised Reactor) comes the news that the nuclear waste produced by this so-called state of the art reactor is far more dangerous than that of ordinary reactors.

Article tagged as: EPR, finland, iodine 129, nuclear, nuclear power, olkiluoto, posiva

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Waiting for a nuclear disaster

Posted by saunvedan - 13 August 2008 at 2:40pm - 0 Comments

Olkiluoto

More breaking news on nuclear safety from Nuclear Reaction this morning; we found the Olkiluoto 3 construction site in Finland, where they are building the so-called state of the art European Pressurised nuclear Reactor (EPR), to be unsafe after examining leaked documents from Areva, the French company building it. Olkiluoto 3 is a white elephant whose construction has been mired with 1,500 flaws, is £1.5 billion over budget and is already running 2-3 years late.

Article tagged as: areva, EPR, finland, france, nuclear, olkiluoto

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Double whammy to EPR sites in France and Finland

Posted by ben - 25 June 2008 at 9:53am - 0 Comments

EPR

20 Greenpeace activists blocked the entrance to 3 quarries in Normandy that supply concrete and gravel for the European Pressurised Reactor (EPR) site at Flamanville yesterday. We took this action to stop the re-opening of the construction site, which had been ordered by the French Nuclear Safety Agency (ASN). This was despite none of the safety problems the ASN discovered over a month ago having been adequately resolved by EdF, who are carrying out the project.

Article tagged as: EPR, flamanville, nuclear, olkiluoto