Excellent reference article. I appreciate the link between high quality education to rational development of clean energy.
The other concern is the need to dramatically increase the amount of clean energy for the world. Nuclear and geothermal are currently the only sources of constant energy. Without a dramatic growth of clean constant energy, the world will resort to more fossil energy.
Grid scale energy storage does not exist. Without grid scale storage, wind and solar are only useful in limited situations.
Excellent synthesis. A well-crafted insight into the social context of Finland and the journey to re-establish nuclear at the heart of the energy system. Worth recalling that historically the Finns have been oppressed by both Sweden and Russia and fiercely resisted the Nazis in World War 2. Same population as greater Sydney....
It should be noted that Finland is also one of the first countries in the world to commence implementing long term storage solutions for used nuclear fuel. This is being done at its Onkalo facility which is expected to start accepting material for permanent storage in 2023 or shortly thereafter.
Finland had a third nuclear power plant planned for the Hanhikivi site near Oulu on the Gulf of Bothnia. The supplier was to be Rosenergoatom in Russia. This project was terminated in 2022 when Russia attacked Ukraine. The conclusion from this is that Finland intends to continue its development of nuclear power beyond the startup of Olkiluoto 3. The purpose here is to reduce dependency on imported fossil fuels and reduce dependency on imported Russian electricity supply.
Excellent reference article. I appreciate the link between high quality education to rational development of clean energy.
The other concern is the need to dramatically increase the amount of clean energy for the world. Nuclear and geothermal are currently the only sources of constant energy. Without a dramatic growth of clean constant energy, the world will resort to more fossil energy.
Grid scale energy storage does not exist. Without grid scale storage, wind and solar are only useful in limited situations.
Excellent synthesis. A well-crafted insight into the social context of Finland and the journey to re-establish nuclear at the heart of the energy system. Worth recalling that historically the Finns have been oppressed by both Sweden and Russia and fiercely resisted the Nazis in World War 2. Same population as greater Sydney....
It should be noted that Finland is also one of the first countries in the world to commence implementing long term storage solutions for used nuclear fuel. This is being done at its Onkalo facility which is expected to start accepting material for permanent storage in 2023 or shortly thereafter.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onkalo_spent_nuclear_fuel_repository
Finland had a third nuclear power plant planned for the Hanhikivi site near Oulu on the Gulf of Bothnia. The supplier was to be Rosenergoatom in Russia. This project was terminated in 2022 when Russia attacked Ukraine. The conclusion from this is that Finland intends to continue its development of nuclear power beyond the startup of Olkiluoto 3. The purpose here is to reduce dependency on imported fossil fuels and reduce dependency on imported Russian electricity supply.