Is Olkiluoto #3 The Next Fukushima #3?

Olkiluoto #3 promotional video is telling that the plant is absolutely safe for the people living near by it. Funny that exactly the same was told about Fukushima plants when they were built and now they are anyway exploding and polluting the people and environment in Japan. Is this the future in Eurajoki too? "Eurajoki the most radioactive municipality in Finland in the future?"

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• Olkiluoto
• Eurajoki
• Fukushima
• Radioactive
• pollution
• electricity
• Finland
• Japan
• Nuclear
• Power
• Uranium
• Explosion
• catastrophe
• disaster

[eskmaratojanilhan]

The power-plant is an EPR and is safe without any active cooling and electricity for at least 141 hours after an incident. Though of it I would place the reactors underground.

[22ness0hayden]

@Trinite1985 We're always guaranteed excellent state-of-the-art design at the time of construction. It's 10 or 20 years later you get the people saying it was flawed from the beginning.

[t83rg]

@TheSfaaf

"Maybe you should stop listening to the most idiotic pro-nukes that are out there.."

I listen to the both sides. It's just a little fustrating as finnish nuclear authority acts like nuclear power company. I understand that their task is to calm down people during major accidents like Fukushima... but during the worst phase of the accident STUK's official saying "situation is under control" is not very convincing

Interesting inYouTube: "Tepco Fukushima Lies For December 10 2011"

[TheSfaaf]

@t83rg

And as far as failing promises so many times goes. Many anti-nukes claimed that the spent fuel pools were uncovered. They were not. Others claimed the fuel would melt through the concrete of the plant leading to an explosion when it hit ground water. They were wrong - the fuel melted 1/18th the way into the concrete basemat.

Maybe you should stop listening to the most idiotic pro-nukes that are out there, and at the same time ignore the most idiotic anti-nukes, and find a happy medium

[t83rg]

@Trinite1985

Before Fukushima pro-nuclear people repeated that there are no risks with western style boiling water reactors, now they just want to fade the news from Fukushima.

So it seems that they were wrong, again. If someone fails to keep he's promises many times, then... you know...

And you should newer forget radioactive waste while talking about these. It is really bad stuff for all living things and stays like that much longer than our society is alive.

[Rubellaaa]

Finland is planning to store European nuclear waste. It´s a good bisnes.

[Trinite1985]

It is quite irrational to make the presumption that all nuclear plants are unsafe. Newer plants use a much safer design. Let me remind you that Fukushima was built before Three Mile Island or Chernobyl occurred, so lessons learned could not be implemented into the reactor design. Also, Fukushima used BWR, a design that is inherently less safe than PWR designs. Case and point, TMI also suffered a meltdown, but didn't contaminate the surrounding area. A much better design than Fukushima.

[jbds]

I don't know what is worse, your ignorance or your stupidity...

[t83rg]

@BlizBob

I think this is getting a bit ridiculous, but let's go..

"Hydrogen explosion. The fuel didn't explode."

-nobody said that it was a fission nuclear explosion. Every man who knows something about subject knows it's not possible. However hydrogen explosion sent large concrete pieces about high 200m in the air and it broke the plant badly...

"Links please."

google image search: "fukushima pollution map"

google search: "fission products" "nuclear power" and also "asse" "atommüll"

[Koshy2]

@BlizBob You're aware you can't link on youtube yes? The Fukushima crisis has contaminated large swaths of land in Japan, with plutonium being found on sight. Reactor 3 did indeed run hotter than the others, likely owing to its mixed oxide fuel. The continual presence of short half life nuclides indicates ongoing recriticality. Contamination is being found throughout the country excluding the most southern regions of the nation.