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No it's almost a rule to build reactors in pairs. That way when you maintain the other, the other still outputs energy. When the decision was made Green Party w
by tekkk 5y ago
No it's almost a rule to build reactors in pairs. That way when you maintain the other, the other still outputs energy. When the decision was made Green Party was in the cabinet and they had made a promise not to build any more nuclear power. So a compromise was made and to actually meet the energy demands of the Finnish industry, the biggest possible reactor was chosen.
- Maakuth 5y agoI'm not disputing that there were politics involved in choosing to build one instead of two reactors. What I mean is that the many of the big challenges facing this project were not particularly connected to the power of the unit. Any size of a reactor would have had the challenges with strict regulation, new type of automation, lack of experienced personnel, etc.
- doikor 5y agoIn Finland (and a lot of other places) building the reactors as pairs is not that necessary due to large fluctuations in the power consumption over the seasons. Basically you just do all the maintenance/refueling during the time of the year with least electricity demand (summer in Finland)
- tekkk 5y agoThat's a good point. I don't know how common sudden power failures are though so for redundancy's sake it'd make more sense to have two.