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The Essential: From Our Own Correspondent: Finland's Reactor Blues

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From Our Own Correspondent: Finland's Reactor Blues

09/06/2016 GMT

BBC World Service - The Essential, From Our Own Correspondent: Finland's Reactor Blues

David Shukman goes inside the site of the vast French-designed Olkiluoto reactor

David Shukman has some awkward questions for Areva, the French firm designing and building the vast Olkiluoto nuclear reactor

The vast Olkiluoto reactor was planned as the world's largest - and it was meant to start supplying Finland with energy years ago. But the project's completion is now long overdue and way over budget. On a recent visit to the site, David Shukman had some awkward questions for Areva, the French firm which designed the facility - and he also observed two very different business cultures at work. 

Photo: Olkiluoto Nuclear Power Plant unit OL3 and the reactor hall in Eurajoki, western Finland.(MARTTI KAINULAINEN/AFP/Getty Images)

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