A further delay in commissioning the EPR under construction at Olkiluoto has been announced by Teollisuuden Voima Oyj (TVO). It attributed the delay to the Areva-Siemens consortium, which counter claimed TVO has failed to fully commit itself to resolving outstanding issues.

Finland's Teollisuuden Voima Oyj (TVO) must release €125 million ($155 million) of withheld payments to the Areva-Siemens consortium, an international arbitration court has ruled. A ruling on the delay and cost overruns of the Olkiluoto EPR construction project is still pending.

While the bidding process for construction of a fourth reactor at Finland's Olkiluoto site has been launched, the country needs to invest in the future workforce for nuclear industry and regulation.

A repository for used fuel from TVO and Fortum's reactors could not safely be expanded to accommodate used fuel from Fennovoima's planned reactor, the companies have said, despite government pressure to make a deal.

Finland's government has instructed Posiva and Fennovoima to cooperate on managing their nuclear waste, and is prepared to invoke the force of nuclear law to make it happen.

Commissioning has begun for the turbine island systems for Finland's newest nuclear power station, Olkiluoto 3.

Fennovoima has received commercial bids from Areva and Toshiba for the construction of its planned nuclear power plant in Pyhäjoki on the western coast of Finland. A final decision on the plant supplier will be made by the end of next year.

Talvivaara's plans to produce by-product uranium in Finland have taken a step nearer to licensing with the release of a positive opinion on the uranium recovery process from the European Commission, while Finnish regulators have found the radiation risks from the operation to be low.

August 2014 is the date that Teollisuuden Voima Oyj (TVO) expects to see power flow from its new reactor, Olkiluoto 3, according to a single-line statement issued on 21 December. The announcement brought a little more clarity to the unit's schedule compared with TVO's last announcement, which specified only the year 2014. The Finnish utility said it had been informed by the Areva-Siemens consortium building the unit that August 2014 was scheduled for commercial operation. Construction started in May 2005.

Tournigan Energy is acquiring uranium assets in Sweden and Finland, has forged an alliance to advance work on its Slovakian interests and announced a name change.

Finnish utility Fortum will participate in the financing of the bidding and engineering phase of the proposed fourth unit at Olkiluoto.

Stress tests at Finland's nuclear power plants show that no major modifications are needed, utilities Fortum and Teollisuuden Voima Oyj (TVO) have told the Finnish nuclear regulator.