{"id":133663,"date":"2024-09-11T07:55:26","date_gmt":"2024-09-11T04:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/helsinki-may-build-a-small-nuclear-reactor-for-heating-purposes\/"},"modified":"2024-09-11T07:55:26","modified_gmt":"2024-09-11T04:55:26","slug":"helsinki-may-build-a-small-nuclear-reactor-for-heating-purposes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/news\/helsinki-may-build-a-small-nuclear-reactor-for-heating-purposes\/","title":{"rendered":"Helsinki may build a small nuclear reactor for heating purposes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\" data-trp-original-action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button\" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133663\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"trp-form-language\" value=\"en\"\/><\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\n<p>Helsinki\u2019s municipal energy utility company Helen has announced plans to build a small nuclear plant for the purposes of providing district heating in the future. The project\u2019s horizon previews having such a plant operational somewhere in the early 2030s. Technically speaking, the energy company is referring to building a small modular reactor (SMR), a fairly recent invention in the nuclear fission field, which has about a third of the generating capacity of traditional nuclear reactors.<\/p>\n<p>As of 2024, only two countries in the world, Russia and China, have operating SMRs, which would make Helsinki (and Finland) a pioneer in Europe if the project gets underway. Still, building an SMR is not cheap and quick, given that the technology is still largely in the process of development worldwide. The firm estimates that the first phase of the plan will be completed in 2026. Helen will evaluate different SMR models that can be used to produce only heat, or both electricity and heat. Given that this involves a nuclear reactor near a large population centre, it raises questions about safety.<\/p>\n<p>However, the regulation side of things is not that clear and it seems the company is moving ahead with plans while admitting, and warning, that excessive regulation can make the entire process of setting up an SMR more expensive.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.themayor.eu\/en\/a\/view\/helsinki-may-build-a-small-nuclear-reactor-for-heating-purposes-12760\">The Mayor<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/environmental-news-en\/6-581\/\">Helsinki may build a small nuclear reactor for heating purposes<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[575,1683,2552,599,4170],"class_list":["post-133663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-environmental-news-en","tag-heating","tag-helsinki","tag-nuclear","tag-smr"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}