20.08.2008 Olkiluoto secrecy prompts immediate response - Bouygues continues safety violations also in France
Greenpeace is shocked by evidence presented by Finnish Broadcasting Company YLE yesterday, showing that Olkiluoto nuclear construction workers have been coerced not to report nuclear safety violations. >>

20.08.2008 Finnish TV: Olkiluoto construction workers coerced to shut up about safety defects
Finnish Broadcasting company YLE has yesterday revealed that both official and unofficial rules have prevented workers at Olkiluoto 3 construction site from reporting safety and quality problems to inspectors, let alone to media. This practice was labeled as the "Olkiluoto code of Silence". >>

20.08.2008 Neglect of nuclear safety continues also in France
The construction company Bouygues, who has teamed up with Areva to build EPR nuclear reactors in Olkiluoto, Finland and Flamanville, France, continues to violate basic safety procedures at both sites. Below is a partial but direct translation of the report of French authorities from the latest inspection in Flamanville. >>

15.08.2008 Minister Katainen’s nuclear wonderland wouldn’t have low emissions or self-sufficiency
The statements by Finland’s treasury minister Jyrki Katainen that new nuclear power plants would be the key to reduce Finland’s GHG emissions and dependency on energy imports are not founded on sound calculations or understanding of energy systems. Greenpeace condemned the idea of exporting large quantities of power to other European countries and warned that the minister’s statements were an attempt to draw attention away from the failures of Olkiluoto 3 project. >>

14.08.2008 Open questions to Finnish authorities
The information published by Greenpeace on Aug 13 shows that quality control has failed in Olkiluoto 3 and severe violations have gone unaddressed for months and even years. Areva, TVO and STUK have failed to provide meaningful answers to the fundamental concerns raised by Greenpeace, who are therefore calling for immediate end to construction work and an independent inspection of the whole project.
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13.08.2008 Severe violations of safety requirements in Olkiluoto
Finland, 13 August 2008 – Confidential documents obtained by Greenpeace reveal that basic safety procedures have not been followed in the construction of the European Pressurised Reactor (EPR) Olkiluoto 3 (OL3) in Finland. Greenpeace is calling for an immediate end to construction work on the reactor.

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13.08.2008 TV report: Severe defects in Olkiluoto 3
Finnish Broadcasting company YLE has yesterday revealed that severe, previously unpublished violations of safety procedures have taken place during the welding of the steel reinforcement of the reactor building. >>

05.08.2008 Repair of OL3 fire damages to take months
A fire at the construction site of the third nuclear reactor in Olkiluoto caused extensive damage. The outer wall structures as well as those of the inner wall were affected. >>

08.05.2008 Clear majority against new nuclear in Finland
When being asked the question "A fifth nuclear reactor is under construction in
Finland. Do you support building more nuclear power in Finland in addition to
the fifth reactor?", 53% said no, 34% said yes, 12% did not have a position. >>

14.05.2008 Report reveals new violations in Olkiluoto
2007 annual report from Finnish nuclear safety authority STUK reveals that violations of quality and safety requirements have continued in Olkiluoto. These violations put into question the safety and reliability of the reactor and are likely to lead to new delays and cost overruns. >>

21.05.2008 Olkiluoto 3 over budget by EUR2.2 bln, more delays
The French magazine Capital reports that Olkiluoto 3 is EUR2.2 billion over budget while earlier the highest estimate has been 1.5 billion.



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28.05.2008 EdF ordered to halt work on EPR reactor
A week ago, the French authorities had enough of the constant violations of safety requirements that seem to be the norm when building new nuclear plants and demanded immediate halt to construction in Flamanville. >>

01.04.2008 OL3 emission reductions a third of original claim
Helsinki, April Fool’s Day - Ten Greenpeace activists are welcoming participants to the annual shareholder meeting of the Finnish state energy company Fortum with banners and Pinocchio noses. Greenpeace want to remind that the promises about reducing Finland’s greenhouse gas emissions and meeting the Kyoto emission target with nuclear power are not going to be realized. Greenpeace calls on Fortum to abandon its planned nuclear project and invest strongly in renewables. >>

18.03.2008 A global nuclear boom?
The ambition of the nuclear industry is to double the world’s nuclear capacity by 2030. This option is also included in the reports of bodies like International Energy Agency and Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. What would such a nuclear boom look like? >>

18.03.2008 Updated briefing on OL3 - March 2008
A condensed fact sheet contrasts the promises the Finnish parliament was given regarding new nuclear power with what the Finns are now bound to get. Safety problems and the status of and issues related to storage of nuclear waste are described. >>

04.10.2007 Real, nuclear-free energy solutions for Finland
Opponents of nuclear power are frequently asked "what do you want instead then?". We believe that this question is misleading in its phrasing. Major changes in consumption and production of energy are necessary to cut greenhouse gas emissions and decrease dependency on energy imports – regardless of whether new nuclear power is built. The key energy solutions of the future are energy efficiency and renewables, and nuclear power cannot form an alternative to them, only hinder the transition. >>