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Olkiluoto 3 was a first of a kind project too. Was built by an established company, but one that had been on a decades long hiatus in building nuclear power pla
by trenchgun 3y ago
Olkiluoto 3 was a first of a kind project too. Was built by an established company, but one that had been on a decades long hiatus in building nuclear power plants.
- c048 3y agoNot to go into too much detail, since my SO that worked on the project might otherwise get into trouble, but some of their cost saving measures simply turned out for the worse. Several core components of the reactor had to be entirely removed and rebuilt from scratch because they tried to cheapen out. Similar reactors built after this will not have these growing pains.
- euroderf 3y agoWeren't there also issues with the training of the workforce ?
- mytailorisrich 3y agoAh yes, it's true that Olkiluot-3's construction started first, although Taishan (in China) finished first.
- natmaka 3y agoNo. The last reactor delivered by the French, before Olkiluoto-3, was Civaux-2 and it was delivered in 1999 (work started in 1991). Work on Olkiluoto-3 started in 2005.