Olkiluoto 3 annual outage completed
Olkiluoto 3 (OL3) returned to electricity production today, Thursday, May 16, after the plant unit’s first annual service outage. The plant was synchronized to the national grid on Thursday, May 16th, at 1:15 PM. After this, the plant unit will be technically ready for a power increase. The power increase will be carried out according to the production plan.It was anticipated that the service outage after the first operating cycle would be very laborious. As OL3 is the largest nuclear power plant unit in Europe, the amount of equipment and components is extremely high. All in all, about 7,