Nuclear Bid to Rival Coal Chilled by Flaws, Delay in Finland
By Alan Katz
Sept. 5 (Bloomberg) — Martin Landtman hunches forward in his shirtsleeves as a June storm on Finland’s Baltic coast drenches the construction site of the world’s most powerful nuclear reactor. As project manager for TVO, the joint venture buying the plant, Landtman has weathered far worse annoyances than rain.
Flawed welds for the reactor’s steel liner, unusable water- coolant pipes and suspect concrete in the (...)