Finnish utility Fortum has published in a statement 24 January some of the results of its ongoing two-year study to explore the conditions for new nuclear, including the identification of new sites for conventional reactors of more than 1,000 MW, as well as for small modular reactors (SMRs) in both Finland and Sweden.

Fortum’s vice president of new nuclear, Laurent Leveugle, said that “the review [which has run since October 2022] examined the commercial, techno­logical, societal and regulatory prereq­ui­sites for new nuclear in Finland and Sweden.”