[bigbugbag]

What I find incredible is that this reactor is going online at all.

Okiluoto started in 2003 and was supposed to cost 3 Bns and be ready in 2009. it took 18 years instead of 6 and total cost is difficult to know exactly but is over 12 Bns instead of 3.

Building this plant (and the Flamanville one) put into light so many issues at so many levels that I am surprised it was completed and actually works.

Though the previously completed EPRs in Taishan was stopped since last june after gas leaks have been found in the primary circuit and framatome asked the US for help. Current talks point to a design flaw and the possibility of not restarting this EPRs is on the table. If this is confirmed, this flaw could also affect Okiluoto and flamanville EPRs.

With last winter trend of France finding design flaws in its reactors and being forced to stop them for emergency repairs and maintenance[1] (affecting the most recent and most powerful ones too), nuclear plant do not seems like a sound sustainable choice at least when France is involved.

[1]: https://www.ouest-france.fr/economie/entreprises/nucleaire-l...

[runeks]

> it took 18 years instead of 6 and total cost is difficult to know exactly but is over 12 Bns instead of 3.

The cynic in me would like to point out that it's not really running yet:

> Olkiluoto 3 started test production at just over 0.1 gigawatt, a small fraction of its capacity, with a ramp-up to full, regular electricity output planned by the end of July.