Finnish nuclear decision - long list of broken promises

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Finnish nuclear decision- long list of broken
promises

• MEP Satu Hassi, Tallinn 27th Oct 2006
• Minister for Environment 1999-2002
• www.satuhassi.net

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National Kyoto Program 2001

• 2nd Lipponen cabinet (1999-2003) presented a
  National Kyoto Program to the Parliament in 2001,
  Ministry of Trade and Industry was leading the
  work
• Two scenarios for meeting the Kyoto target
• 1 Energy efficiency, renewables, replacing coal
  by natural gas
• 2 Less energy conservation renewables, 1000 MW
  new nuclear capacity

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Nuclear power was presented as cheapest option

• Difference between non-nuclear and nuclear
  alternative was estimated to be 0,1 0,3 of
  GDP in 2010, depending on energy tax model
• Two research institutes estimated the cost, one
  of them public, the other private

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Scaremongering

• The nuclear lobbyists made a very skillfully
  designed scaremongering campaign
• Without new nuclear capacity we would face
  electricity shortages in cold winter days, homes
  would freeze
• And we would become too dependent on electricity
  and gas import from Russia

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GHG emissions from Kio1 (non nuclear), Kio2
(nuclear) scenarios
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Nuclear option was also dirtier

• The basic assumptions of the 2 scenarios were
  chosen so that the nuclear option was also
  dirtier (coal burning not reduced before 2008)
• The nuclear option produced more GHGs both before
  2010 and thereafter
• The graph (by the Ministry of Trade and Industry)
  showing this was not presented to the Parliament

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Potential ignored by the Parliament

• Expert reports presented to the Parliament
  Biomass potential 400 800 MWe more than in
  Government scenarios
• Estimated total windpower potential of Finland 50
  TWh/yr. (8 TWh/yr equivalent of yearly
  production of 1000 MWe nuclear plant)

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Ignored energy efficiency potential

• If 50 of the one family houses with electric
  heating would install a heat pump (common in
  Sweden) equivalent of 1000 MWe nuclear power
  station
• Low energy houses save 60-90 of the normal
  electricity consumption. If new houses built like
  this instead of conventional ones, saving by
  2020 equivalent of 900 MWe nuclear power.
• If 35 of industrial motors would be equipped
  with inverters equivalent of 1000 MWe nuclear
  power

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U-turn on Kyoto after 2002

• The Parliament ratified Kyoto some weeks before
  the nuclear vote in May 2002
• Soon after the nuclear vote Kyoto was blamed as
  unfair for Finland, a catastrophe for Finnish
  industry orchestrated by the Green environment
  ministers. This blaming is still continuing.
• Ex President of Confederation of Finnish
  Industry Green ministers mislead the industry
  on Kyoto

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Projected GHG-emissions (December 2002)
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Broken promise 1 Domestic Kyoto

• Present Government has decided to allocate CO2
  emission rights to industry over our Kyoto quota.
• Taxpayers money will be used to buy more
  emission rights for the country.
• Means subsidizing emissions instead of emission
  reductions.

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Broken promise 2 Promoting efficiency and
renewales

• By December 2002 the promise to identify new
  measures to promote renewables and efficiency was
  broken.
• Feed in tariffs to promote renewables rejected.
• Money allocated less than was promised in the
  promotion programmes.
• Wind capacity net increase in Finland
• 2004 30 MW
• 2005 0 MW

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Broken promise 3 Reducing dependency on fossils

• Feed in tariff planned to support peat burning.
• Energy tax will be lowered for farmers -gt
  decreases tax advantage for renewables in rural
  areas.

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Broken promise 4 Safety

• Chosen reactor is a prototype
• Safety analysis was very rapid.
• Too porous concrete in the basement.
• Main constructor has failed to provide safety
  education for sub-constructors.
• Very critical report published in July by STUK,
  the Finnish nuclear and radiation safety
  authority www.stuk.fi/stuk/tiedotteet/en_GB/news_4
  19/_files/75831959610724155/default/STUK20Investi
  gation20report201_06.pdf

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Broken promise 5 Reducing energy dependency on
Russia

• After 2002 electricity import from Russia
  increased by 20 - 40
• New cable proposed directly from Sosnovy Bor.
• Source of electricity not in the MTI permit
  criteria.
• UP in press conference April 19th 06 In Sosnovy
  Bor region not enough demand for electricity,
  therefore one reactor at standstill.

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