The head of Rosatom called Finland's refusal from the nuclear power plant project legally vulnerable

The construction site of the Hanhikivi 1 nuclear power plant in Pyhejoki, Finland. Archival photoSt. Petersburg, 15 Jun. Rosatom has a good chance of recovering the money spent on the Hanhikivi-1 NPP project, said Alexei Likhachev, CEO of the corporation. economic expediency, is absolutely politicized,” he said in an interview with RBC-TV on the sidelines of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum. According to him, this will have to go through a certain legal path, but the company has the necessary successful experience in similar work for this. «All the money that was spent in Finland will be billed,» Likhachev added. In early May, Fennovoima terminated the contract with » Rosatom» for the construction of «Hanhikivi-1» in Finland. The project involved the construction of a single-unit nuclear power plant based on a modern Russian-designed VVER-1200 generation 3+ reactor with a capacity of 1200 megawatts. The customer, owner and operator of the future nuclear power plant is the Finnish Fennovoima Oy, the general supplier is RAOS Project (part of Rosatom). The Russian Foreign Ministry called the decision of the Finnish side to stop cooperation with Rosatom as politicized.«Rosatom» commented on the refusal of Finland from the contract for «Hanhikivi-1»