NEW DELAY HITS OL3 SCHEDULE
April 1st, 2012
BY JOHN PAGNI , IN HELSINKI
FINLAND'S trouble-plagued nuclear reactor building site at Olkiluoto has encountered another problem which has caused certain installation work to be halted it was announced yesterday. Plant operator TVO and the Franco-German construction consortium Areva-Siemens said they are "investigating a quality non-conformity detected in their inspections" affecting 10,000 small pipes, staging "comprehensive quality inspections and analysis".
According to Tapani Virolainen, the Olkiluoto OL3 project manager at Finland's ...
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