"Areva said today that it could not be certain exactly when the station would be completed"

[bananas]

This boondoggle keeps getting further and further behind schedule.
"Areva said today that it could not be certain exactly when the station would be completed"
In a few years, the "when" will change to "if".

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/jan/14/areva-nuclear-finland-olkiluoto

Areva clashes with Finnish utility over delays to new nuclear plant

* Terry Macalister
* guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 14 January 2009 17.49 GMT

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Jarmo Tanhua, chief executive of Teollisuuden Voima Oy (TVO), the Finnish electricity provider, said he was "extremely disappointed" that Areva had told it that the Olkiluoto 3 facility was not going to be completed until 2012 – three years later than originally expected.

But he also attacked Areva and its German consortium partner Siemens for suggesting the embarrassing problems that have given valuable ammunition to the anti-nuclear lobby had been caused by the Finns.

"TVO is extremely disappointed that the consortium has not – regardless of its responsibility as turnkey supplier and its earlier promises – been able to complete the works on time or to mitigate its delays through effective acceleration measures," he said. "TVO totally rejects the consortium's accusations that TVO has any responsibility for the delay."

"The consortium incorrectly claims delays in document handling and approval, despite the fact that a large number of the documents it is required to prepare have still not been submitted for first inspection although the plant unit should almost be complete by now."

TVO has accepted for some time that the project was going to be blown off course but Areva said today that it could not be certain exactly when the station would be completed. Raising questions about whether the date could even be later than 2012, a spokesman said: "A major change in TVO's methods is required to set a definitive schedule for the project."

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[NNadir]

1. If it is completed in 2012, it will STILL produce 5 times as much energy as the Danes could produce

in 30 years of already breaking down wind power, and reliably.

http://www.ens.dk/graphics/Energi_i_tal_og_kort/energidata_kort/stamdataregister_vindmoeller/AnlaegProdTilNettet20081219.xls

In dumb bell fantasy land this is missed because the number of anti-nukes who can compare two numbers is ZERO.