A visit in Finland has been carried out on March 9-11.
The students have visited FORTUM utility Headquarter (in Espoo) and their reactor simulator. Then the tour continued on the Olkiluoto site, where TVO utility is building the first european EPR, a new generation reactor (Areva technology).
HERE SOME PICTURES !…
…first, a meeting with FORTUM Utility, at Espoo
then, trip to Olkiluoto site:
and a visit to Onkalo, the first geologic repository for nuclear waste in the World:
…and final visit to the Olkiluoto Info Center:
the model of the EPR (1600 MWe) under construction on the site
a full scale copy of one bolt of the Reactor Pressure Vessel Head, and a view of the wall thickness (reinforced concrete) of the Reactor Containment
and the copper+steel cask for spent fuel disposal into the final geologic repository in Onkalo