In Finland, Nuclear Renaissance Runs Into Trouble

It would be nice to see this get sorted out. I'm a big proponent of nuclear power. I wonder how much of the trouble can be put on a government operation and union labor? (pic via Henna Aaltonen for The International Herald Tribune)

In Finland, Nuclear Renaissance Runs Into Trouble - NYTimes.com: "OLKILUOTO, FINLAND — The massive power plant under construction on muddy terrain here was to be the showpiece for a coming nuclear renaissance. The most powerful reactor ever built, its modular design was supposed to allow it to be built quickly and with greater certainty about costs, just in time to meet the clamor for cleaner sources of energy to combat global warming. The plant was to be the first in a wave of simpler and safer nuclear plants. But things are not working out as planned. After four years of construction and thousands of recorded defects and deficiencies, the original €3 billion, or $4.2 billion, price tag on the Olkiluoto reactor has climbed at least 50 percent. The reactor was supposed to be completed this summer, but work is so far behind schedule that Areva, the French company building the facility, and Teollisuuden Voima, the utility that ordered it, no longer are willing to predict with certainty when it will go online."