Europe's biggest reactor caps 14-year delay to begin commercial output
Europe’s largest nuclear reactor has begun regular electricity production 14 years later than planned, delivering a boost to the region’s energy independence.
By Lars Paulsson and Kati Pohjanpalo / Bloomberg
The 1,600-megawatt plant sitting on a rocky island that juts into the Baltic Sea on Finland’s west coast entered commercial operation in the early hours of Sunday. Olkiluoto-3 is the first new atomic reactor in the Nordic countries since the mid-1980s, and the first in its home nation in more than four decades. About 30% of Finland’s electricity will now be produced on Olkiluoto.
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