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As it passes, it moves the limbs of the same side at the same time.


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The bear's afterstring resembles the traces of a human walking without shoes.


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While preying or escaping, the bear gallops, causing its forehand and hind paws to hit the same after.


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The bear sets out usually jumping, leaving an even jumping mark on the ground.


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On hard ground, the step width is small, but on soft snow, the bear runs legs with its magpies.


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[9] [2] Nutrition The bear lives in more varied environments than any of its related species, and also its diet varies depending on habitat.


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Many other bear species are mainly herbivorous, polar bears carnivores, and the brown bear settles between these two extremes.


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About 30 per cent of the brown bear's nutrition is meat: mainly moose, deer, fish, birds and scavengers.


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[21] North American bears eat more meat and fish (for example, spawning salmon) than others.


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European and Asian bears eat plants, roots, insects, berries, nuts, cereals, as well as animal food such as insects, mammals and fish if available.


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[11] [21] The bear finishes its prey by breaking the spine with a blow from the front paw or by biting prey on the neck, neck or back.


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The bear often stores its prey by covering it with land, sparrows and moss, or snow in winter.


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The bear stays nearby big prey up to several days, eating it every now and then.


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[21] Reproduction The bear becomes sexually mature at 3—5 years of age, and sexual maturity continues for a long time thereafter.


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Bears' estrus dates to May—July, and mating expenditures include male fights over females.


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The bear mates in June—July, but the egg does not attach to the uterine wall until late autumn.


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Bear female bears for a long time, up to 270 days.


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There are usually one to four pups at a time and are born in January—February to winter nesting.


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In the winter nest, the puppy receives its nourishment from its mother's milk.


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The bear female does not have cubs every year, but only gives birth every 2—4 years.


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[20] [7] Bears live in the wild until 20—25 years old, in the orchard up to over 40 years of age.


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[22] Male bears have been found to kill young, [23] bear cubs less than one year old.


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Such behaviour has been thought to have evolved due to the fact that the female might become horny again without the cubs and the male may get into mating.


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[23] In Finland, bear cub mortality is around 40%, according to the Institute for Game and Fisheries Research.


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[24] Bear cubs follow their mother until the spring of the following year.


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[20] Winter Sleep In winter, bears sleep in Finland during winter sleep, which lasts just under half a year.


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However, in southern Finland, the bear may be active year-round.


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[20] [7] The bear begins to prepare for winter sleep by collecting tens of pounds of fat from carbohydrate-rich food such as berries.


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Shortly before winter sleep, the bear stops eating and empties its intestines from the food mass.


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The bear retreats to the winter nest in autumn in October/November.


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It usually decides the location of its wintering site about two weeks before the onset of winter sleep.


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In this case, the movement of the bear also decreases.


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[25] [23] [20] There are many individual differences in bear winter nests.


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The most common type of winter nesting is a burrow made of an abandoned anthill whose mouth is covered with moss.


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The second most common type of winter nesting is a cavity dug in the ground.


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The bear can also make its winter nest at the base of dense spruce, in a rock hole or under a big rock.


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A lot of male bears settle down in a pit and let the snow fall on their heads.


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[25] [20] A bear's winter sleep is not as deep as the winter hibernation of bats and hedgehogs, as the bear's body temperature drops to 33 degrees Celsius (cf.


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in winter hibernators almost zero degrees).


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However, the female bear's body temperature remains at 37 degrees until giving birth.


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The bear reacts to its environment during winter sleep, and occasionally wakes up mid-winter sleep when its body's food stores are depleted prematurely.


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The female bear gives birth during winter sleep.


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The bear's heart rate drops during winter sleep from 40 beats per minute to 10 beats.


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When wintering, the bear does not urinate or defecate.


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Its urine moves from the bladder to the liver, where it turns into protein.


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[26] [20] In spring the bear awakens from winter sleep in March—April, [25] when snow melted by the sun drains into its nest.


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After winter, bear males leave females earlier on the move.


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Males usually take off as soon as there is little enough snow to hunt moose.


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Females and their cubs go into circulation only when the ground is completely melted.


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While waiting for the snow to melt, the bear makes the branches of the nest near or nest a sleeping place and eats tree buds as well as aquatic plants from near the nest.


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After the snow cover is reduced enough, the bear begins to hunt moose.


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Unless this works out, it will fill its food supply with ants.


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[24] Bear and man Bear worship The bear has been a prized and sacred animal for the ancient Finns.


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[1] However, it has also been feared, [1] which is why many euphemisms have been used for the bear.


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The bear is, according to the story, calculated from the sky in the constellation of Otava.


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In the mythology of several northern peoples, the bear is of human ancestry, and perhaps the ancient Finns may have thought this way as well.


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A feast has been organised in honour of the bear, or finches, at which the bear has been asked to return to the forest for human consumption.


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[27] The finch tradition has survived to these days.


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[28] [29] The names brown bear and land bear are also used for bear designations.


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[2] In Finnish folklore, the bear has several euphemisms, such as meskämmen, kouvo, kontio, otso, forest apple, forest king and teddy bear.


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[30] Also bear has been originally a euphemism meaning the rough fur of an animal, but has since become established as a bear name.


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Using euphemisms, ancient Finns have wanted to avoid inviting the beast to them.


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Perhaps the oldest and most original designation of bear is equivalent to the word otso in the current Finnish language.


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The OTSO word is a variant of the word ohto.


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Ohto taasen is a deminutive form of the word oxy, which is the bear's original designation.


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The oxy-word bends like word two.


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The word has equivalents even in distant Finnish languages and it is ancient and original in these languages.


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[31] Bear in symbolism The bear is the coat of arms animal of Satakunta and also appears in the coat of arms of Pori and Eura and in the coat of arms of the rural municipality of Pori that has fallen out of official use.


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Pori is known as a bear town, which has given its name to a Finnish beer brand, among other things.


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[32] [33] Bear-themed nomenclature also exists elsewhere in Finland.


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For example, the basic form of the name Kouvola, kouvo means bear.


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Outside Satakunta, the bear is depicted in the municipal coats of arms of Alahärmä, Ilmajoki, Isonkyrö, Kauhajojoki, Kontiolahti, Lapua and Pudasjärvi, the former coat of arms of Alavude and the former Karhula Merchant and Eno Municipality.


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Also on the coat of arms of the former municipality of Nuijamaa is depicted the palm of a bear holding a mace.


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[34] In heraldry, the bear symbolizes greed on the one hand, because the bear is a perso to honey, but also strength.


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The 1930s proposal for the Great Reich Coat of Arms of Finland had two bears as shield-bearers.


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[35] Russia is often symbolized in the bear.


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[36] [37] Bear and Man The normally behaving wilderness bear will elude man in the wild, [38] if this is only possible and if man does not awaken the predatory instinct inherent in the beast for one reason or another.


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[39] However, a bear may aggressively defend its nesting site, and especially a mother bear on the move with her cub may attack a human when interpreting the situation as dangerous for the cub.


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[39] Most often, however, bears flee when they smell or hear a person, [39] and therefore it is worthwhile to make noise when walking in the forest.


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Attacks by bears on humans are extremely rare.


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[40] In the last hundred years, only one person has reportedly been killed by a bear in Finland: in 1998, a bear killed a reed man who had run between the bear mother and the cubs on his jogging path.


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[41] [42] In May 2006, a bear attacked a woman who was jogging in Hankasalmi.


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The bear mauled the jogger's leg but escaped after the woman kicked the animal in the muzzle.


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Overleap incidents are known to occur mainly in various hunt-related situations, or when the bear mother defended her chicks.


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[43] [44] Worldwide, a few people are killed by a bear each year.


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[45] There are also occasional road accidents involving a bear.


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A bear is a shallow animal compared to a moose, so the collision itself is usually not immediately a danger to the motorist, but even in such a situation, the general rule applies that the wounded bear is dangerous.


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[46] Several cases are known when sheep or cattle have been mauled by a bear, [47] [48] and for beekeepers a bear with honey taste may become a real nuisance who regularly visits harvesting the crop in apiaries.


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Therefore, beekeepers may need to protect their nests from the bear with various deterrents.


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[49] [50] The bear may mine compost or eat from crops even near built-up settlements, in which case it may become accustomed to humans.


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Such urban bears are perceived to be dangerous, and a waiver may be granted to take them down.


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[51] In the United States, it has been found that in 70% of cases where a grizzly bear has attacked a human being, the mother defending their chicks, whereas attacks by black bear mamas are extremely rare.


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[52] A 2016 study in Sweden found that some brown bear mamas and their chicks remained closer than normal to human habitation during the males' estrus period.


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[53] Horny males kill a significant proportion of chicks in order to mate with the mother


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[53] Litters who lived closer to human settlement survived better because males avoid human settlement.


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[53] Bear hunting Bears are hunted both as a sport hunt, for their products (meat, fleece and organs) and for the removal of individuals perceived as disturbance or threat.


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In some regions, such as the Russian Far East, poaching for bear gall bladders and paws poses a greater threat than authorized bear hunting.


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[11] In Finland, the main objective of bear stock management is to maintain a vibrant but human-sensitive stock, minimise the harm caused by bears and increased public knowledge of the bear.


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The management plan attempts to reconcile the coexistence of the bear and local people and operators.


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[54] The actual hunting period for a bear in Finland is from 20 August to 31 October, at other times it may be granted exemptions.


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[55] More than 200 bears are shot each year in Finland.


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[56] (2017-232pcs) The Finnish Hunting Law prohibits shooting a bear from a scavenging, unrepaired field or driving it out of the nest.


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[57] Natural enemies The bear does not have many natural enemies, with the exception of tigers and other bears.


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Siberian tigers usually prey on young bears, but an adult female bear also qualifies for them.


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[58] [59] [60] In the 44 cases examined where a tiger and a bear encountered, the tiger took the initiative in 12 cases and the bear in eight.


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In every other case the bear died, in 27% of cases the tiger died and 23% both survived.


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[61] Sources Literature Citation error, replace with {{cite book| author = Bieder, Robert E.| title = Little Bear Book| location = Helsing| publisher = Thought | year = 2008| version = (Bear, 2005.)


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Translated by Jani Kaaro| id = ISBN 978-951-20-7659-8}} Citation error, replace with {{cite book| author = Leinonen, Antti; Finnish, Teuvo| title = Finnish Bear | location = Helsinki| publisher = Otava| year = 1991| id = ISBN 951-1-11575-8}} Citation, replace error with {{cite book| author = Leinonen, Antti| title = Under the Big Bear | location = Helsinki| publisher = Bilds: Finnish Nature Conservation Support| year = 2008| version = Photos and captions: Antti Leinonen.


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Text: Heikki Willamo.


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2. revised edition| id = ISBN 978-952-92-2795-2}} Citation error, replace with {{cite book| author = Mäensyrjä, Pentti| title = Korpiemme kontio yesterday, today, tomorrow| location = Hämeenlinna| publisher = Karisto| year = 1971}} Citation error, replace with {{cite book| author = Holm, Erik S .; Kemilä, Eero| title = Brownbear| location = Porvoo| publisher = WSOY| year = 1990| id = ISBN 951-0-14696-X}} Citation error, replace with {{cite book| author = Oksanen, Auli| title = Bear, kontio, ohto and otso: with linguistic sources of bear designations | location = Helsinki| publisher = University of Helsinki | year = 2007| version = Master's thesis research| format = [online version]}} Citation error, replace with {{cite book| author = Pentikäinen, Juha| title = Bear Heels: Forester and Man| location = Helsinki| publisher = Etnika| year = 2005| id = ISBN 951-97889-X} Citation error, replace with {{cite book| author = Rautiainen, Lassi; Härkönen, Pertti| title = Bear, King of the Fores| location = Kajaani| publisher = Articmedia| year = 1990| id = ISBN 951-95376-2-7}} Citation error, replace with {{cite book| author = Vadén, Tere| title = Hu name| location = Tampere| publisher = European Society for Philosophy| year = 2006| id = ISBN 952-5503-21-6}} On topic elsewhere Category:Bears Category:National symbols of Finland Category:Provincial animals of Sweden Category:Key articles of screening


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By 1964, the world had 14 reactors connected to the power grid, in 1970 81 reactors, in 1975 already 167, 365 in 1985 and 428 in 1999.


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[5] [8] The Use of Nuclear Power Nuclear power is used in a wide range of uses, from power plants to submarines and from satellites to beacons.


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The high energy content of nuclear fuel allows, on the one hand, to produce large amounts of energy with small streams of materials, and on the other hand, allows long-term energy generation without the need to add fuel.


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[5] In 2017, nuclear power produced 4.4% of the world's primary energy.


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It was the second most significant emissions-free energy source after hydroelectric power.


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About 85 percent of the world's primary energy was produced by fossil fuels.


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In terms of energy content, the use of nuclear power was equivalent to burning 596 million tonnes of oil per year.


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[2] Of the world's electricity generation, nuclear power accounted for 10.3% in 2017.


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[2] As recently as the 1990s, the share of nuclear power was around 17%.


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In the 21st century, the proportion has declined because world electricity consumption has increased, but the amount of electricity generated by nuclear power has remained roughly unchanged.


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Growth in consumption has been covered by coal-fired power, natural gas and renewable forms of energy.


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[9] Nuclear power worldwide Nuclear power is considered in several countries as a form of energy suitable for continuous, large scale electricity consumption.


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The largest share of nuclear power is in France, which generates 72% of its electricity from nuclear power (in 2017) [10].


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In the electricity market, the running order of power plants usually becomes such that, when consumption decreases, production is the first to be reduced at high-cost power plants such as natural gas-fired power plants.


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Nuclear power plants producing relatively inexpensive electricity are usually used almost nonstop to cover basic power needs.


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Of course, the production of nuclear power plants can also be adjusted if necessary, and so is commonly done in countries that produce a lot of nuclear electricity.


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In January 2019, electricity was produced worldwide at 454 nuclear reactors in 30 different countries.


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They had a total power output of 400285megawatts.


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[11] In 2017, 10.3% of the world's electricity was produced by nuclear power.


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[2] In EU countries, almost 30% of electricity is produced by nuclear power.


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[12] In January 2019, 55 new reactors were under construction in 18 different countries: UAE, Argentina, Bangladesh, Brazil, South Korea, India, Great Britain, Japan, China, Pakistan, France, Slovakia, Finland, Ukraine, Turkey, Belarus, Russia and to the U.S.


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[13] The largest nuclear producing countries are the United States, France and China.


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These three countries house nearly half of the world's nuclear reactors, and together they produce just over half of the world's nuclear energy.


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Other major nuclear energy countries include Japan, Russia and South Korea.


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Finland is the 17th largest producer of nuclear power with 2769 megawatts of power in four reactors.


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[11] From 1998 to 2010, the amount of electricity produced by nuclear power in the world increased by 14%.


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Over the next two years, it fell 11 percent as many countries shut down reactors after the Fukushima accident.


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From 2012 to 2017, nuclear electricity production has increased again by 6%.


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[14] In the Nordic countries, nuclear power was produced in January 2019 with four reactors in Finland and eight in Sweden.


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[11] The Swedish government decided in 1980 to abandon nuclear power after a referendum had been held in the country in which all options included abandoning nuclear power.


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[15] [16] In 2009, the Swedish government decided to reverse the decision to abandon nuclear power and allow new nuclear reactors to be built.


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[17] Of the reactor types, light-water reactor is by far the most common.


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As of January 2019, a total of 373 were operational, including 301 pressurized water reactors and 72 boiling water reactors.


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The next most common is the heavy water reactor, of which there were 49 pieces.


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In addition, 29 graphite slow motion reactors were in operation, including 15 water-cooled and 14 gas-cooled, and 3 utility reactors.


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[18] Nuclear power in Finland Finland has four commercial nuclear reactors.


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In 2017 they produced 17% of Finland's primary energy [19] and 33% of Finland's electricity generation [20].


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In Finland, the utilisation rate of nuclear power plants has generally been over 90%, which is better than the world average.


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[21] There is a small TRIGA research reactor in Otaniemi, Espoo, launched in 1962.


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Radiation produced by the reactor was used in addition to research for boron neutron capture therapy for brain tumors.


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Treatment operations ended in 2012, and the reactor closed for good in 2015.


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The reactor's owner, VTT, plans to demolish it.


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[22] Two of the nuclear reactors in power generation are located in Satakunta on the Olkiluoto island of Eurajoki, near Rauma.


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Their owner is Industrial Power TVO.


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Another two reactors are owned by Fortum and are located in Eastern Uusimaa in Loviisa on the island of Hästholmen.


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[23] Olkiluoto's 900 megawatt boiling water reactors were manufactured by Swedish company ASEA-Atom, the current multinational ABB.


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Loviisa's 500-megawatt pressurized water reactors are from the output of the Soviet company Atomenergoexport.


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The first unit at Loviisa began power generation in February 1977 and the second unit in November 1980.


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The Olkiluoto reactors were started in 1978 and 1980.


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[23] At one time, more nuclear power had to be built in Finland.


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In the 1970s, Helsinki bought part of Granö Island, part of the island of Granö, which is part of Sipoose, for a new nuclear power plant.


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A company, Helsingin Seuhun Kämitö Oy, was also set up in the metropolitan area to build a nuclear power plant.


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Power stations were ultimately not built anywhere near the planned number.


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The main reason for further construction was the people who feared the risks of nuclear power.


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The reason for the second was falling natural gas and coal prices.


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[24] In 2002, Parliament authorised TVO to build a third nuclear power plant unit in Olkiluoto.


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Originally the unit was planned to be commissioned in 2009, but now the latest news indicates that the plant will be commissioned in 2019 [25].


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The new facility is a so-called third-generation light water reactor and a European pressurized water reactor or EPR.


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The plant will be the largest unit in the world with electrical power (1600 MW).


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The plant's steam turbine is the largest steam turbine in the world.


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The new plant will be supplied by the German-French Framatome-Siemens consortium.


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During the construction project, a significant number of quality and function deviations have been reported, resulting in delays in the implementation schedule of the project.


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The most significant problems have been recorded in STUK news [26].


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On 1 July 2010, Parliament decided to grant permits for the construction of two more new nuclear power plants.


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Another of these permits was granted to TVO, which planned to build one more nuclear power unit in Olkiluoto.


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Parliament granted permission for Olkiluoto 4 by 120-72 votes, but TVO cancelled the project in 2015 [27].


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The second permit was granted to a newcomer, Fennovoima, founded in 2007, by a vote of 121-71.


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The new nuclear power plant will be built in Pyhäjoki.


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[28] Nuclear Power Plant In a nuclear power plant, a nuclear reactor generates heat that heats the water in the main circulation circuit.


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In a boiling water reactor, the water in the main circulation circuit is vaporized.


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The steam rotates the turbine and is condensed back into water in the condenser.


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In a pressurized water reactor, again, hot water from the main circulation circuit is piped to the evaporators where the water from the secondary circuit is vaporized.


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The steam is piped to the turbine and from there to the condenser.


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The condenser is cooled either by water from the body of water or by means of a cooling tower.


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The turbine spins a generator that generates electricity.


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[29] Nuclear fuel cycle Nuclear power plants normally use uranium oxide containing 3% to 5% fissil uranium-235 as their fuel.


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Plutonium-239, which is generated when a nuclear reactor operates and can be recycled into new fuel, can also be used as fuel.


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The energy density of nuclear fuel is very high because energy production in nuclear plants is based on fission reaction rather than oxidation as in combustion plants.


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The uranium consumed by every reactor in the world a year — about 70,000 tons — would fit into a cube with edges 15 feet long.


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[21] The manufacture of nuclear fuel starts at the uranium mine.


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A typical 1,000-megawatt nuclear power plant consumes about three cubic metres of fuel per year, with approximately 50000 tonnes [30] of uranium ore being mined for the manufacture of fuel.


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A coal-fired power station of comparable size consumes more than three million tonnes of coal per year [31] and normally coal mines for each tonne of coal must have excavated more than ten times the amount of rock [32].


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Consequently, more than 500 times the amount of mining is required to produce a similar amount of energy using coal.


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Since only 0.7% of natural uranium is the fissil isotope U-235 of uranium, natural uranium must be concentrated to the higher concentration required for light-water reactors in separate concentrations.


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In the manufacture of fuel, uranium oxide is compressed and sintered into ceramic, usually cylindrical, studs of about 1cm long and diameter.


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The buttons are hard, solid and the material difficult to dissolve.


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Each button is enough to generate about 10,000 kilowatt-hours of electricity.


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Uranium studs are stacked as rods inside thin-walled zirconium tubes.


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The pipes are welded at their ends and assembled into bundles.


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These bundles are put in a reactor, where water travels between the rods and heats up as nuclear reactions occur inside the bundles.


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[21] Nuclear fuel is produced on a commercial scale in Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Japan, Kazakhstan, South Korea, Pakistan, Romania, Russia, Spain, Sweden, England and the United States [33].


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The state of nuclear fuel does not change during operation; the spent fuel remains in the reactor in its entirety between fuel exchanges.


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Unused nuclear fuel does not radiate significantly, and its short-term processing does not require special safeguards.


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Spent nuclear fuel, on the other hand, emits strongly and poses a danger to those staying nearby if radiation protection is not taken care of.


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[21] Spent fuel is stored and treated in a pool of water which almost completely dampen the radiation.


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Fuel assemblies must be stored in water pools for several years before they can be moved elsewhere for further treatment.


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It is possible to recycle spent nuclear fuel 95% through reprocessing, leaving only about 5% of the fuel as waste.


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However, fuel from Finnish nuclear power plants is not reprocessed because the Nuclear Energy Act prohibits the export and importation of spent nuclear fuel [34].


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If no reprocessing is done, spent nuclear fuel is nuclear waste.


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[35] Transport of spent and unused nuclear fuel has been discussed in the article Nuclear Fuel Cycle.


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Adequacy of nuclear fuel Main article The occurrence of uranium Uranium is a non-renewable resource which, however, exists in the earth's crust in such considerable quantities relative to its consumption that there is no realistic possibility of its depletion over a foreseeable time span.


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The total amount of uranium on Earth is about 63 trillion tonnes, and in the earth's crust its concentration is about 4 parts per million.


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[36] In addition, existing uranium stockpiles, nuclear fuel reprocessing and nuclear disarmament fuel are used.


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Approximately 40% of the world's nuclear electricity is currently generated from these fuel sources that are unneeded for mining.


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[37] According to a joint report by the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency NEA and the UN-subordinated IAEA, known ore reserves economically available at a price of less than $130 per kilogram are good 4.7 million tonnes, which would be sufficient to meet the needs of existing reactors for the next 85 years.


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[37] However, in addition to known reserves, uranium reserves remain so far undiscovered in the earth's crust.


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Today mining requires a concentration of at least 1000 ppm of uranium in the ore to make it profitable to exploit.


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These deposits contain approximately 90 million tonnes of uranium, based on geological mapping conducted at the United States Department of Energy.


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[36] [38] Researchers responsible for inventory of uranium reserves at the NEA and IAEA have estimated that conventional reserves of uranium to be exploited for modern mining activities are sufficient for at least centuries, taking into account, in addition to known reserves, so far undiscovered deposits produced by geology under the earth's crust is estimated to be.


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[39] The amount of uranium available depends heavily on the price of uranium, because the higher the price, the poorer deposits can be exploited by investing more in mining.


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The doubling of the price of uranium will increase the uranium reserves tenfold, the price tenfold up to about 300 times already.


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If even part of the more than tenfold increase in the price of uranium seen in recent years is permanent, the result is a very significant increase in economically interesting uranium resources to a whole new order of magnitude.


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Raw uranium accounts for only some percent in the price structure of nuclear electricity, so a significant increase in uranium would not increase the price of electricity very significantly.


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[36] [40] The adequacy of uranium is also significantly influenced by the technology used.


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The fuel economy of nuclear power plants is evolving all the time, increasing the energy content of uranium reserves.


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On the other hand, by recycling nuclear fuel through reprocessing more than 90% of the fuel, it is possible to return to the nuclear fuel cycle.


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Most significantly, however, fuel resources would be increased by the wider use of utility reactors, which are capable of producing more fuel than they consume when running.


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In addition, utility reactors can use thorium much more common than uranium as fuel.


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So far, however, the utility reactor technology is in production use only in Russia, although experiments have been carried out in the United States, France, Japan and Britain, among others.


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The greatest increase in the adequacy of nuclear fuel would be the introduction of fusion reactors, which can use hydrogen from ordinary water as their fuel.


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[5] Nuclear waste management In the use of nuclear power, nuclear fuel becomes nuclear waste because during nuclear reactions fission products are created in the fuel, some of which hinder the operation of the reactor.


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The greatly elevated radioactivity of the waste is due to these fission products accumulated in fuel rods.


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In addition to spent nuclear fuel and other high-level waste, low- and medium-level nuclear waste is generated at the nuclear plant, for example during maintenance and normal operation of the plant.


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The most significant impact from a nuclear safety point of view is spent nuclear fuel, i.e. high-level nuclear waste.


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[41] In the use of nuclear power in volume, low- and medium-level nuclear waste is produced, including, inter alia, low-radioactive substances or stained with active substances, workwear, protective equipment, equipment, parts, filters and filtration wastes.


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The activity of these wastes is rapidly decreasing and, in the beginning, they contain only a small fraction of the radioactivity produced by the plant.


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Often the radioactivity half-life of these wastes is so short that the waste is simply stored to wait for the radioactivity to fade for its own times.


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Once activity has dropped enough, the waste is recycled or shipped to standard waste management.


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Waste for which it would take too long to wait — about a century or more — is stored in guarded warehouses or disposed of in a place where guarding is not necessary, usually in an enclosed rock cave.


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Many countries have disposal facilities for low- and medium-level nuclear waste in operation.


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[42] Compared to the nuclear power industry, higher amounts of low-level waste are generated in other parts of society: in the EU, agriculture, construction, oil and gas production, coal and peat burning, wastewater purification and other human activities generate tens of millions of tonnes each year waste containing natural radioactivity which may exceed the free limit for low-level nuclear waste.


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[29] In Finland, low- and medium-level wastes are stored at the site in one centralised storage facility and the spent nuclear fuel is also stored.


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Radioactive low- and medium-level waste is also generated when old nuclear power plants are dismantled.


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[29] High-level nuclear waste is mainly spent nuclear fuel and contains most of all radioactivity produced by a nuclear power plant.


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High-activity nuclear waste contains numerous quantities of uranium fission products, many of which are highly radioactive isotopes of various elements, such as plutonium isotopes Pu-238 as well as Pu-239, xenon-135 gas and iodine-131.


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There is still usable uranium left in spent nuclear fuel, or high-level nuclear waste, but it can no longer be used in the reactor because the reactor's operation may be disrupted by fission products.


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Fresh high-level nuclear waste radiates very strongly, generating plenty of heat.


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For this reason, the waste must be constantly cooled in the water basin.


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However, the activity of spent nuclear fuel is falling rapidly at first: in the first year after removal from the reactor, activity has dropped by 99%.


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In this case, a large part of the fission products has decomposed into other elements.


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Since high-activity nuclear waste also contains elements with a long-lasting half-life, it will take a long time for radiation to be dampened to such an extent that it is safe to stay near spent fuel for short periods of time.


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Next to a copper disposal capsule may be in a few decades.


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In the vicinity of the fuel itself, you can stay for short periods after about a thousand years.


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However, the planning of disposal is aiming for an isolation period of around one hundred thousand years, because, for example, waste in a powdered form is dangerous for organisms for a long time to come.


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[29] [43] A number of different solutions have been presented for waste management of spent nuclear fuel.


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About 95 percent of spent fuel could be recycled through reprocessing, which is done mainly in France and Japan.


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Of the other waste management options, geological disposal is the most significant and cost-low.


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The joint position of the International Atomic Energy Agency under the United Nations, the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency NEA and the European Communities is, [44] that since 1978 the NEA has brought together experts representing its member countries (Radioactive Waste Management) Committee, RWMC) to develop guidelines for nuclear waste management.


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According to RWMC, there is broad agreement among industry experts that disposal planning can achieve an adequate level of safety well into the future and that it is the duty of generations who have benefited from nuclear electricity to carry out nuclear waste management in a sustainable way.


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Experts' confidence in geological disposal has been confirmed by numerous national security clearances and environmental licensing processes in member countries.


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The RWMC also identifies similarly favourable attitudes as less common among those with less knowledge.


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[45] The UN Agenda 21 Programme Declaration also encourages member countries to focus on exploring geological disposal for its environmental and security interests.


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The disposal of spent fuel has not yet started anywhere, but disposal projects are underway in several countries, including Finland.


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[42] Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, the Finnish Union for Conservation of Nature and many other NGOs oppose nuclear power and the geological disposal of nuclear waste because nuclear waste can end up in groundwater and thereby elsewhere in the habitat.


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Greenpeace is calling for the waste to be stored in above-ground storage facilities to connect with nuclear power stations until a safer disposal solution than current plans is found.


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[29] [46] Environmental impact and safety The operation of a nuclear power plant does not produce direct CO2 emissions, but the construction of a nuclear power plant, uranium production and enrichment and waste management are emitted.


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The total lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions of nuclear power are about 12 grams of carbon dioxide equivalent per 1 kilowatt-hour produced.


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This is the median value calculated by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change based on a number of different studies by the IPCC.


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Nuclear power lifecycle emissions are in the same range as wind power (11g/kWh) but much lower than coal-fired (820g/kWh) and natural gas (490g/kWh).


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[47] The IPCC therefore classifies nuclear power, as well as renewables, as low emission energy.


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[48] In its 2007 report, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) notes that the decrease in the share of fossil fuels in global energy production from 86% in 2004 to 81% in 2004 “is mainly due to increased use of nuclear power" [49] According to the IPCC, nuclear power technology, along with energy efficiency, renewable energies, carbon capture and many other technologies, can play a significant role in mitigating climate change.


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[50] According to IPCC estimates, nuclear power's share of world electricity generation could rise from 16% in 2005 to 18% in 2030.


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[51] According to the IEA, the International Energy Agency estimates that nuclear power could reduce by more than three per cent of global energy production emissions by 2030 compared to primary careers.


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[52] However, significant challenges for nuclear power annexation include safety issues, treatment of nuclear waste and costs.


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[53] [54] The most significant direct adverse effects of a nuclear power plant are common to all thermal power plants and do not apply specifically to nuclear power plants.


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Of these, in the case of nuclear power, the most noticeable is the warming of seawater used for cooling the condenser.


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Returning to the sea, it heats water bodies and may cause local ecosystem changes, favoring locally warm area species at the expense of cold region species.


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Other impacts include local noise and traffic to the site.


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Nuclear power, like other forms of energy production, also causes indirect adverse effects.


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Uranium mines, for example, may cause local environmental problems and occupational accidents, as well as work-related illnesses.


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Taken as a whole, however, the nuclear fuel cycle as a whole causes less environmental impact and personal injury relative to the energy produced than fossil fuel use and many renewable energy sources.


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Partly this is due to the very small quantities of uranium needed for energy production, making mining operations comparatively small-scale.


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Relative to energy produced, the harm caused by coal mines is many times that of uranium mines.


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[55] [56] Radiation safety The use of nuclear power involves ionising radiation and radioactivity, the need to take into account which makes the use of nuclear power different from other energy sources.


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In the process of nuclear power plant, various species of ionizing radiation and radioactive substances are present, to which exposure in large quantities is hazardous to health.


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Some workers at a nuclear power plant may be exposed to ionising radiation in their work and radiation protection must be ensured.


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Nuclear power plants distinguish between radioactive substances generated in their operations, which are either put on hold for natural decay to become stable substances or disposed of.


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In more detail, the topic is discussed in the article nuclear waste management.


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Some gaseous or liquid radioactive substances are very difficult to isolate, so carefully controlled release of them dilute enough into the environment is allowed.


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For example, for the Olkiluoto nuclear power plant, active emissions to water were 0.6 gigabequerelles in 2006.


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The tritium discharge to water from the same plant was 2.46 terabequerelles in 2006.


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[57] The operation of nuclear power plants in Finland results in an annual dose of less than 0,05 microsieverts for the most exposed population, which is less than 0.05% of the limit of 100 microsieverts defined by the authorities and an increase of approximately 0,0001% in the radiation dose that the average Finnish person receives from natural sources of radiation annually.


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The rest of the population gets an even lower dose.


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Thus negligible doses of radiation not only undercut the natural variability present in background radiation, so completely disappear into it.


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It is clear that no health effects with such small changes in radiation have ever been observed.


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[58] Nuclear safety Main article: Nuclear safety Radioactive fission products are generated in a nuclear reactor when uranium atoms crack in fission reactions.


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If the reactor is damaged enough to allow fission products to spread into the environment, the radiation they emit can cause damage to humans.


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The risk of accidents associated with the use of nuclear power cannot be completely eliminated, but with careful planning and use, the risk is very low.


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The three basic functions of nuclear safety are chain reaction control, reactor cooling, and preventing the spread of radioactive materials.


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If these basic functions can be performed, then nuclear power is safe.


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[29] Loss of control of a chain reaction can lead to a so-called reactivity accident in which the power of the nuclear reactor is abruptly increased, as happened in the Chernobyl accident.


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In this case, the fuel in the reactor heats up quickly, which can lead to its damage and the release of radioactive materials.


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Efforts are made to design nuclear reactors in such a way that an increase in temperature or boiling of cooling water slows down the chain reaction.


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This prevents an uncontrolled increase in reactor power.


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To quickly stop a chain reaction, the reactors have a quick-closure system that pushes control rods into the heart of the reactor.


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If the control rods get stuck, then the chain reaction can also be stopped by pumping a boron solution into the reactor, which absorbs neutrons.


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[29] The nuclear reactor must be cooled even after the chain reaction has been stopped, because residual heat is generated in the radioactive decay of fission products.


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The residual heat output of a large reactor is so great that it can melt fuel rods.


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Nuclear reactors are equipped with emergency cooling systems to pump additional cooling water into the reactor even if normal cooling systems are not working.


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The accidents at Three Mile Island and Fukushima [59] were caused by a failure to cool the reactors.


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[29] For the purpose of preventing the spread of radioactive materials, a nuclear power plant has several successive barriers to spread.


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During the normal operation of the reactor, almost all radioactive material is inside the fuel rods.


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Therefore, water leakage alone does not pose a high radiation hazard unless it is accompanied by fuel damage.


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In the event of an accident, fuel rods may break, allowing radioactive materials to be released into the pressure-resistant containment.


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If the containment remains intact, as in the Three Mile Island accident, then emissions into the environment will remain very low.


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[29] Nuclear accidents Main article: Nuclear accident See also: List of nuclear accidents There have been three serious accidents at civilian nuclear power plants.


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The worst of them was the explosion of the Chernobyl reactor on Ukrainian territory in the Soviet Union on April 26, 1986.


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More than 30 workers died from injuries they sustained in the crash.


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[60] The World Health Organization estimates that up to 9000 people could die from cancers caused by Chernobyl radiation.


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[61] All residents were evacuated at a distance of 30 km from the plant and also evacuated the worst-polluted villages outside the 30 km protected area.


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[62] The economic damage caused by the accident amounted to hundreds of billions of euros.


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[63] The second worst nuclear power plant accident in history occurred in Japan when an earthquake on 11 March 2011 caused a tsunami that destroyed the power systems of the Fukushima nuclear power plant.


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The power outage brought the plant's cooling systems to a standstill, and in the heart of three reactors, fuel overheated and eventually melted.


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[59] Approximately 170,000 persons were evacuated from an area around 30 km around the plant.


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[64] Fifty-one people died in the evacuation.


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[65] No direct radiation adverse reactions have been observed.


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The radiation doses people received were left so low that they do not substantially increase cancer disease.


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[64] The economic damage caused by the accident amounted to hundreds of billions of euros.


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[66] The Three Mile Island accident in Harrisburg, United States, on March 28, 1979, began with an error in maintenance work on the feedwater system.


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After that, through a safety valve stuck open, so much cooling water leaked that the reactor's heart overheated and partially melted.


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Emissions into the environment were left very small because the containment building remained intact.


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The accident reactor was damaged unusable.


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[29] On the seven-tier INES scale, the Three Mile Island accident falls into category 5, while Chernobyl and Fukushima accidents are in the highest category 7.


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[60] Nuclear power, nuclear weapons and nuclear disarmament See also: Nuclear weapon and nuclear disarmament Less than one per cent of natural uranium is fissil, i.e. the chain reaction sustaining isotope U-235.


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Nuclear power plants usually use concentrated uranium, with a U-235 content of about three percent.


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Nuclear weapons, on the other hand, use concentrations of more than 95 percent.


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This is why you cannot make a nuclear weapon by using fuel from nuclear power plants as it is.


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The light-water reactor of a conventional nuclear power plant consumes fissil substances when running, so the fuel enrichment rate continues to decrease while in the reactor.


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Although a conventional light-water reactor nuclear power plant is hardly helpful in the acquisition of weapons, many other types of nuclear technologies, such as fortification technologies, can be used both peacefully and militarily.


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Nuclear fuel can still be fortified as fit for nuclear weapons, which is why records of nuclear materials are kept and their quantity verified through inspections and supervision.


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In Finland, nuclear monitoring is handled by the Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority and internationally by the IAEA.


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Expanding control beyond fissils to nuclear technology eligible as military technology has been proposed, as India and Pakistan, for example, have acquired a lot of nuclear technology used for weapons production from Western countries, declaring their intention to use it peacefully.


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Camouflaging a nuclear weapons project as peaceful is usually clunky because of the variety of technology needed and IAEA inspections.


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The cover-up has never succeeded in concealing a nuclear weapons project until the completion of a nuclear weapon.


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A cover-up is not necessarily necessary, because if a country is not covered by the NPT, it is legally allowed to acquire a nuclear weapon.


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Israel has nuclear weapons even though the country has no peaceful power plant use of nuclear technology.


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Likewise is allegedly North Korea's case.


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Early 2006 has seen a stir over Iran's nuclear project: the country has been threatened with taking the issue to the UN Security Council and sanctions.


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Even US or Israeli military action has been flashed.


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Iran has threatened, for its part, with secession from the NPT, among other things.


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None of the countries mentioned uses nuclear power.


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Peaceful use of nuclear power without military aspirations is clearly more common: a total of 27 nuclear-free countries use nuclear power exclusively peacefully.


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The pursuit of a nuclear weapon is prevented on the one hand by the technical obstacles described here, on the other hand, by international commitments.


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Without advanced technological ability to concentrate the proportion of fissils substances to about 90% in natural uranium or nuclear fuel, it is not technically feasible to make a nuclear weapon.


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Moreover, almost all countries in the world have committed by the NPT not to produce a nuclear weapon, and so far this commitment has not been violated.


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There are currently four non-NPT countries worldwide.


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Countries that acquire a nuclear weapon have — whether they use nuclear power or not — invariably either acquired the weapon before the NPT existed, or have been few non-treaty countries, and therefore outside UN nuclear control.


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Nuclear power plants are also used for nuclear disarmament.


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Plutonium in a nuclear weapon is disposed of by diluting them to be fit for nuclear fuel and then using them in nuclear power plants to generate electricity.


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The use of MOX fuel from nuclear weapons in power plants has met opposition from various organizations who view the process as ineffective and consider it to involve, among other things, major nuclear proliferation and nuclear safety risks.


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[67] For example, MOX fuel was used in the Fukushima Daiichi 3 reactor badly damaged in the Japanese nuclear accident.


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Nuclear control The commercial use of nuclear power has since its inception been based on strict regulatory control, the genesis of which dates back to the United States of the 1950s.


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Based on the American Atomic Energy Commission statute, modern rules for the peaceful use of nuclear power around the world have been established.


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The main guides of the principles of the use of nuclear power are that the benefits of use must outweigh the disadvantages and must always be safe.


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In Finland, for example, the Nuclear Energy Act () stipulates: 5 § The total interest of society The use of nuclear energy must be, taking into account its various effects, in the overall interest of society.


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Section 6 Safety The use of nuclear energy must be safe and not cause harm to people, the environment or property.


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Other types of nuclear energy use are illegal in Finland.


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Compliance with the Nuclear Energy Act and other laws and regulations regarding nuclear energy is monitored both nationally and internationally.


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The main responsibility for supervision always rests with the local authority.


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As an example of a typical commercial nuclear power control system, Finnish control is given here.


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The Ministry of Employment and the Economy, or TEM, is responsible for the supreme supervision of nuclear energy and the use of nuclear energy in Finland.


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The Ministry prepares legislation in this area and takes care of its implementation.


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As a representative of Finland, TEM participates in the preparation of international nuclear agreements.


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TEM oversees the management of nuclear waste in Finland and manages the State Nuclear Waste Fund collected from fees added to the price of nuclear electricity.


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TEM represents Finland in Euratom, the IAEA and the OECD Atomic Energy Agency (NEA), as well as the Nordic Nuclear Safety Research Programme (NKS).


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STUK (STUK) is an authority independent of plant operators and policymakers overseeing the design and operation of nuclear power plants.


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Other countries have equivalent nuclear safety supervisors.


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The European Atomic Energy Community, or Euratom, is a nuclear power entity in the European Union with authority.


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It monitors the use of nuclear power within the European Union.


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The International Atomic Energy Agency, or IAEA, is a United Nations nuclear energy agency that monitors the use of nuclear technology and nuclear materials internationally.


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It has the right of surveillance in all signatory countries to the NPT.


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The Non-Proliferation Treaty includes all independent states in the world, except Pakistan, India and Israel.


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According to a calculation by Lappeenranta University of Technology, nuclear power is the second cheapest form of electricity generation in Finnish conditions after wind power.


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Most of the cost of nuclear power is capital costs.


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In the university's calculation, the cost of capital accounts for 62 per cent of the total cost, compared to five per cent in real terms.


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Fuel accounts for only 13% of the cost of nuclear power.


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The remaining 25% is operating and maintenance costs, which include setting aside money for the dismantling of the nuclear plant and disposal of nuclear waste.


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[68] If a nuclear power plant causes damage to bystanders, the power plant operator, the power company, must compensate for the damage.


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According to the Finnish Nuclear Liability Act, financial liability is unlimited.


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The power company must take out liability insurance, which will cover damages up to 700 million euros.


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[71] [72] The price of nuclear electricity has included a large number of expected or potential costs outside the cost of actual electricity generation.


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However, absolutely all external costs are not estimated to include the price of nuclear electricity.


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A study published by the European Commission has calculated the external costs of generating electricity from different energy sources.


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The externality cost of nuclear power in the study yielded between 0.2 and 0.5 c/kWh.


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This can be compared to coal (2—15 c/kWh), oil (3—11 c/kWh), gas (1—4 c/kWh), biomass (0—5 c/kWh) and wind power (0.05—0.25 c/kWh).


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[73] The amount of resources invested in the development of different energy technologies varies widely.


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For example, in 1999 in the United States, nuclear power was supported by $685 million (approx.


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0,1 c/kWh) of 38.4 million beneficiaries of wind power (approx.


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1 c/kWh) and hydroelectric power of $3.8 million (approx.


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0.001 c/kWh).


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During nuclear energy development work 1947—1961, the United States, according to one estimate, invested a total of $39.4 billion ($15.30/kWh) on a new energy source.


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This has been compared to support for wind power of US$1.2 billion (US$0.46/kWh) over an equally long 15-year period from 1975 to 1989.


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Relating the subsidies to the amount of energy produced up to the present day, it has been calculated that the subsidies would increase the price of nuclear energy by 1,2C/kWh in a calculated manner.


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Similarly, solar power generation has been supported at 51c/kWh and wind energy production at 4c/kWh.


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[74] In the OECD countries, US$16 billion was invested in nuclear energy research between 1995 and 1998.


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This includes fusion research.


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Over the same period, renewable energy and energy saving were explored with public funds from OECD countries for $9 billion.


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[75] Nuclear power and society Main article: Nuclear power debate The use of nuclear power is a highly polarised political issue and debate and argument exists in the media.


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There will also be demonstrations, advertising campaigns and other expressions of interest on the topic.


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Nuclear negative protests are positive more common, while paid notification is more often resorted to by the party defending atomic power.


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In most polls, the use of nuclear power generates more support than opposition.


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But there is a significant minority of opponents.


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Measurements of additional construction of nuclear power give varying results.


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[77] The political controversy over nuclear power is significant insofar as the production of nuclear power is strongly associated with a political authorisation process, usually accompanied by a wide public debate.


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So the amount of production of nuclear power does not grow or decrease freely according to demand; it is the elected politicians who decide to allow and restrict its use.


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The visible nuclear debate of recent decades has a palpable impact in today's nuclear policy.


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In many countries, the use of nuclear power has stalled or reversed into decline by political decision.


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[34] Between the 1950s and 1980s, the growth of nuclear power was very rapid and in some countries, such as France, it replaced the use of fossil fuels for electricity generation almost entirely.


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[78] Finland and Sweden (see


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diagram on the right) are examples of countries where nuclear power production has long been purposefully increased.


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As a result, fossil fuels account for a markedly smaller share of total energy production than in industrialized countries in general.


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In addition, it is possible to use biofuels and hydropower significantly in Sweden and Finland, which is also reflected in the charts.


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Germany and Denmark are countries where the use of nuclear power is low.


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In Denmark, nuclear power production was never even started and it has been decided to stop the production of nuclear power that grew initially in Germany.


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Countries' energy production is mostly through fossil fuels while efforts have been made to increase the use of renewable energy sources.


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Countries have focused mainly on additional wind power construction with biofuels and hydroelectric power limited in these countries.


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In terms of security of supply, nuclear power will soon become a major factor in Finland.


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The planned Hanhikivi Nuclear Power Plant in Fennovoima and Olkiluoto 3, which is under construction, will increase Finland's nuclear power capacity to about twice the current level.


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Due to large and regionally highly centralised production sites, nuclear power is also a vulnerable mode of energy production.


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A military or terrorist attack on nuclear power sites such as Olkiluoto or Loviisa could cause significant harm, for example, in the metropolitan area due to possible radiation fallout.


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On the other hand, access to electricity could also be significantly hampered.


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[79] The Future of Nuclear Power The development of nuclear power continues to be active around the world.


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New applications for nuclear power are constantly being sought and existing technology is being improved.


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On the other hand, new forms of nuclear energy are also explor


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The acceptability of nuclear power is influenced, on the one hand, by the concerns of people who are critical of nuclear power about the harm of nuclear power, and on the other by those who are positive.


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So the nuclear debate will continue to be active in the future.


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Rising energy demands and the Kyoto climate agreement have led many countries to build or plan to build additional nuclear power, and increased uranium production needs to be increased to meet the increased demand.


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The adequacy of uranium for nuclear energy needs depends on how much nuclear power production increases and what technology new nuclear power will utilize.


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Due to the abundance of uranium in bedrock, the adequacy of uranium in itself does not constitute a technical barrier to the widespread increase in the use of nuclear power (see


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article about uranium occurrence).


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Environmental journalist Rob Edwards has suggested that increased demand for uranium could lead to increased uranium production, particularly in developing countries.


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This could exacerbate the environmental impact of mining, since environmental standards in developing countries are weaker and less efficient than the developed world [80].


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So far, however, most of the world's uranium production has remained in developed countries.


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Canada and Australia in particular have increased their production and together produced more uranium in 2005 than all other producing countries combined [37].


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Current developments in the quantity of nuclear power are discussed above in the section “Use of nuclear power”.


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Small modular reactor Due to delays in construction projects at large nuclear power plants, consideration has begun to build smaller reactors.


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Small modular nuclear reactors (SMR, Small Modular Reactor) of less than 300 megawatts could be mass-produced at the plant and transported to the site in whole modules.


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This could speed up construction and lower costs.


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[81] The lower power could make it easier to build a small reactor to be safe with passive cooling systems.


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Small reactors could also be used for district heat production.


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Small reactors are not yet commercially available, but prototypes are under construction in China, among others.


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In Finland, small reactors came into wide public debate in 2017 when council initiatives in Helsinki, Espoo, Kirkkonummi and Nurmijärvi called for a study of the potential of small reactors in the production of electricity and district heating to replace fossil fuels .


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[82] Benefit reactor Benefit reactors that produce new nuclear fuel when operating may also use uranium-235 (0.7% of crustal uranium), but also uranium-238 (99.3% of crustal uranium).


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In addition to uranium, utility reactors can utilize potentially much more common thorium as nuclear fuel.


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So far, the use of thorium has not been profitable because uranium is available cheaply, but in the future thorium can potentially increase the adequacy of available nuclear fuel.


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Experimental reactor experiments have been carried out around the world, but in industrial use the utility reactor technology is currently only in Russia.


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[83] [84] The increase in the price of uranium due to rising demand may lead to an acceleration in the development of utility reactors because they use uranium more efficiently than current reactors.


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However, fuel for benefit reactors carries, among other things, nuclear proliferation risks, [80] and according to a study conducted by MIT, it is not expected that new reactor and fuel technologies will simultaneously be able to meet costs, safety, nuclear waste and to the risks associated with nuclear proliferation.


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It therefore recommends using current technology in the coming decades as well.


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[85] Accelerator Reactor One development of nuclear reactors is Accelerator Driven Systems (ADS).


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ADS may become a major way to dispose of long-lived radioactive materials while making electricity at the same time.


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To some extent, utility reactors are capable of doing the same.


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With this treatment, the activity of spent nuclear fuel falls below that of natural uranium within a thousand years.


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Today, geological disposal is widely regarded as the best but still highly controversial alternative to spent fuel nuclear waste management.