Keep Mr. Burns out of Eurajoki
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Finlands largest project ever

In its largest project ever Finland is building it's 5th nuclear power plant on the west coast of Finland.

Forking over 3 billion euro to build it is Teollisuuden Voima (TVO), while the French Framatom ANP and the German Siemens are doing the building.

Ready in 2009

The whole thing is supposed to be ready in 2009, after which 1600 Megawatts of nuclear generated power should be coming out of the town of Eurajoki.

The reasoning of the government behind this decision is that it wants Finland to be less dependant on Russia in the future for it's imports of energy, that count for almost 70% of it needs.

Safer than Sovjet-era plants

Another reason given was that a Finnish nuclear power plant would be safer than the Soviet-era ones.

So let's just hope that Mr. Burns, Homer Simpson's boss, is not going to run the plant, or that Homer himself does not get the luminous idea to come and work in Eurajoki.

If they anyways do, someone make them read this Good Practice Guide To Managing Wastes From Nuclear Sites

Of course at the time of the decision there were no New Finnish Technology That Cuts Heating Energy Costs To One Third so that Finland has no other choice than to stomach Nuclear Growth