As Finland prepares to start building a new nuclear reactor, the threat of environmental activists and extremists targeting the country’s nuclear power stations is growing, security police said. “There are so few power plants being built in the world for the time being that activists could conceivably target the power plant that will soon be built in Finland,” Iikka Salmi, chief superintendent of the Finnish security police, told AFP. Finnish power company TVO is scheduled to start building a new nuclear reactor in Olkiluoto in western Finland this year, and expects to have it up and running by 2009. The plans to build the reactor, which will be Finland’s fifth, has agitated environmental activists around the world. Full Story
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