All those construction problems are pretty nerve wracking to read about. It seems that the major risks of these plants has shifted from operational hazards and design flaws to possible construction faults.
> The waste heat, an output common to all thermal power plants, which heats the cooling water (at 13 °C) is utilized for small-scale agriculture before being pumped back to the sea. The power plant hosts the northernmost vineyard in the world, a 0.1 ha experimental plot that yields 850 kg Zilga grapes annually. Another use is a pond for growing crabs, whitefish and sturgeon for caviar.
Hmmm not sure these paranuclear farm products will sell all that well…
Sadly, these singular wines produced in Finland are not available for the mass market - they are for the nuclear power plant employees and partners only. Other than that, the water from the secondary cooling circuit that is used for the vineyard is perfectly safe. The secondary circuit cools the primary circuit, which has itself low activity, and there is really no way the radition could ever escape to the secondary circuit.
Pretty sure the wines would be extremely popular, as it is the only of its kind (vineyard) in the whole country - even if some portion of the public would never drink a wine produced at a nuclear power station site. But according to the sources I was able to find, the process for getting all the food safety certifications for a commercial operation is just not the worth the effort at the small volumes they are able to produce.
On my list of things I'd like to buy just for fun. Nuclear certificates (like green certificates but proving my electricity comes from a nuclear power plant is also on that list), as is stuff from Lithuania these days.
> The waste heat, an output common to all thermal power plants, which heats the cooling water (at 13 °C) is utilized for small-scale agriculture before being pumped back to the sea. The power plant hosts the northernmost vineyard in the world, a 0.1 ha experimental plot that yields 850 kg Zilga grapes annually. Another use is a pond for growing crabs, whitefish and sturgeon for caviar.
Hmmm not sure these paranuclear farm products will sell all that well…