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Hanhikivi / Work On Administration Building To Start Within Months

By David Dalton
8 June 2020

Work On Administration Building To Start Within Months
Work on the Hanhikivi administration building is due to start in the coming months. Photo courtesy Fennovoima.
The construction of Fennovoima's administration building for the Hanhikivi-1 nuclear power station under construction in northern Finland will begin in the coming months, the company said in a statement.

The work will be carried out by Lehto Tilat Oy, a subsidiary of Lehto Group, and is scheduled to be completed in early 2022.

In addition to the administration building, Lehto Tilat Oy will construct the plant office for the Russia-supplied Hanhikivi-1 unit. The €30m projects will require 160 staff-years during the construction phase.

The six-storey administration building, with the total area of 10,600 m2, will contain modern office spaces for about 300 people, meeting rooms, a staff restaurant and a training wing.

The construction of the plant office will begin when the administration building is complete.

Fennovoima said its goal is to obtain the construction licence for te plant in 2021 and to start commercial operation in 2028.

The plant’s projected startup date is four years behind the original schedule and eight years later than the proposed start when Finland’s government approved the project in 2010.

Fennovoima, a consortium of Finnish industrial and energy companies, had warned in 2017 of potential delays.

Hanhkivi-1 will be a 1,200-MW VVER pressurised water reactor. The reference plant for the unit Leningrad 2 in Sosnovy Bor, Russia.

According to Fennovoima’s website, the total investment cost for Hanhikivi-1 will be between €6.5 and €7bn, which includes initial plant costs, financing and waste management. This estimate has remained the same since spring 2014, when the original investment decision was made, Fennovoima said.

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