Fortum completes Finland’s first nuclear decommissioning

Fortum, a Nordic energy company, has carried out what is believed to be Finland’s first nuclear decommissioning project together with VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, the owner of the reactor.

The company recent dismantled the FiR1 research reactor, which was located at VTT’s premises at the Aalto University’s Otaniemi campus in Espoo.

In operation for over fifty years, the 250-kilowatt reactor was commissioned in 1962 and shut down in 2015. Over the decades it was used for a wide…

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