A few weeks ago, Irja Kallio and myself participated at the Energy 2014 Fair and Congress in Tampere, Finland.
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The Fennovoima nuclear power plant was represented at the fair in Tampere. New experts from various fields have started to work in Fennovoima during the past few months. There are over 140 people working in Fennovoima at the moment.
Finland's third nuclear power company Fennovoima was founded in 2007. Fennovoima will build its Hanhikivi 1 nuclear power plant in Northern Finland.
Fennovoima proceeds to political decision-making. Fennovoima has today submitted to the Ministry of Employment and the Economy a clarification concerning the current ownership situation of the main Finnish owner Voimaosakeyhtiö SF.
Voimaosakeyhtiö SF owns 66 % of Fennovoima. Reserved at the moment is 54,72 %. The increase of about 1 % compared to the figure presented yesterday is due to Vantaa Energia’s decision that was made this morning to increase its share by a little less than 1 %.
Voimaosakeyhtiö SF’s negotiations with new potential owners continue. The target is to keep the ownership in Fennovoima in the current 66 %. Fennovoima’s other main owner with a 34 % minority share is Rosatom’s Finnish subsidiary RAOS Voima.
The Ministry of Employment and the Economy has announced yesterday that it proposes for the Government to approve the supplement for Fennovoima’s Decision-in-Principle on September 18th, with the condition that the Finnish ownership must be at least 60 % at the time of the submittal of the construction licence application. Fennovoima applies for the construction licence by summer 2015.
Fennovoima project proceeds towards the construction phase in accordance with the schedule. Today, the start of the very first construction work is celebrated at the plant site on Hanhikivi headland in Pyhäjoki as the construction of the new access road to the plant site is launched by Suomen Maastorakentajat Oy.
Fennovoima’s nuclear power plant Hanhikivi 1 starts generating electricity in 2024.
Uploaded on Jul 23, 2010
"The Girl from Ipanema" ("Garota de Ipanema") written in 1962 by Antonio Carlos Jobim with lyrics in Portuguese by Vinicius de Moraes and in English by Norman Gimbel was recorded by Astrud Gilberto, João Gilberto and Stan Getz, in March 1963 as part of the album Getz/Gilberto, released March 1964 on the Verve label.
It was released as a single, reaching number one on the Pop Standard chart and was named Record of the Year in 1965. The album won the 1965 Grammy Awards for Best Album of the Year, Best Jazz Instrumental Album - Individual or Group and Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical.
The personel are Stan Getz - tenor saxophone, João Gilberto - guitar, vocals, Astrud Gilberto -- vocals, Antonio Carlos Jobim - piano, Sebastião Neto -- bass, and Milton Banana - drums.
The version presented here is the long one from the album and is, in my opinion, superior to the shortened one which received a great deal of play on the radio during the summer of 1964. The album is available on CD on Verve.
This sound recording is administered by UMG. No copyright infringement is intended. This purpose of this upload is for viewer enjoyment and education not for monetary gain.
Less than a month to the start of the Olympics in Sochi, Russia.
Rio de Janeiro, commonly referred to simply as Rio, is the capital city of the State of Rio de Janeiro, the second largest city of Brazil, and the third largest metropolitan area.
2014 FIFA World Cup Football in Rio de Janeiro.
Rio de Janeiro is the very depiction of Brazilian football with all forms of kick abouts taking on its streets, public parks and vast beaches.
It comes as no surprise, then, that the city is the birthplace of such world-renowned footballers as Jairzinho, Zico, Ronaldo and Romario, to name but a few.
Four of Brazil's biggest and most popular clubs are based in the Cidade Maravilhosa: Botafogo, Fluminense, Vasco da Gama and Flamengo, the club with the country's biggest fan base, of over 30 million aficionados.
Football is like a religion for the cariocas, and its temple is undoubtedly the mythical state-owned Maracana, arguably the most famous and once the largest stadium in the world.
Officially named Mario Filho Stadium, after a famous sports journalist, the Maracana was inaugurated shortly before the 1950 FIFA World Cup in Brazil and hosted five of the home country's six matches in that competition, including the fateful 1-2 loss to Uruguay in the final match of the tournament.
The resounding defeat on 16 July 1950 - dubbed Maracanazo by world champions Uruguay - was to be forever remembered as a national disaster in Brazil.
The Maracana has been completely renewed for the FIFA World Cup, in order to offer absolute comfort while still being the largest stadium in Brazil as a 75,117-seater.
The Engenhão, which was built as a venue for the Pan-American Games in 2007 and will be used in the 2016 Olympic Games, is the home ground of Botafogo. Vasco owns the São Januário, a stadium built in the 1920s that was the largest in the country before the Maracanã was opened.
The opening ceremony in Pori June 6, 2014
The band is playing and the announcer is ready...
Eero Vilén is studying his award in detail.
