{"id":8581,"date":"2023-04-17T05:34:12","date_gmt":"2023-04-17T00:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=8581"},"modified":"2025-03-29T03:52:23","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T22:22:23","slug":"olkiluoto-3-nuclear-reactor-ol3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/olkiluoto-3-nuclear-reactor-ol3\/","title":{"rendered":"Olkiluoto 3 Nuclear Reactor (OL3)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Olkiluoto 3 nuclear reactor (OL3):<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>OL3 is an EPR (European Pressurized Water Reactor) located in Finland.<\/li>\n<li>It is built by the French-led Areva-Siemens consortium.<\/li>\n<li>It is the most powerful nuclear reactor in Europe, with a capacity of generating 1,600 megawatts.<\/li>\n<li>It covers approximately 14% of Finland&#8217;s electricity demand.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>\u00a0<\/h3>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is a Pressurized Water Reactor?<\/h3>\n<p>The pressurized water reactor (PWR) is a type of nuclear reactor used to the generate electricity and propel nuclear submarines and naval vessels.[3] They make use of light water (ordinary water, as opposed to heavy water) as their coolant and neutron moderator.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.deccanherald.com\/international\/world-news-politics\/europes-largest-nuclear-reactor-enters-service-in-finland-1210214.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Europe&#8217;s largest nuclear reactor enters service in Finland<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OL3 is an EPR (European Pressurized Water Reactor) located in Finland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":8582,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8581","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}