FINLAND APPROVAL
June 1st, 2004
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has used its Euratom powers to give Finland the go-ahead to build a new fifth nuclear power plant, citing the need to replace old fossil fuel plants. The first ordered in the European Union for more than a decade, the plant should command an electrical capacity of 1600 MWe from 2009.
THE EUROPEAN Commission has used its Euratom powers to give Finland the go-ahead to build a new fifth nuclear power plant, citing the need to replace old fossil fuel plants. The first ordered in the European Union for more than a decade, the plant should command an electrical capacity of 1600 MWe from 2009.
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