Papermodel
Scale 1/350

Nuclear Power Plant
with Pressurized Water Reactor
EPR (1600 MW)

In 1984 a "papermodel-legend"
was born!

Twenty years ago, the german company Siemens-KWU published a papermodel showing a typical nuclear power plant with a pressurized water reactor.

These power plants with pressurized water reactors of the "Konvoi"-type proved the extreme high level of german development in nuclear power plants.
One of the last power plants of this type put into operation was "Isar 2", close to Landshut/Bavaria.

2004 - the "legend" continues . . .
A brand new papermodel of an EPR-nuclear power plant was introduced to the public
on May 25th, 2004 at the annual meeting for nuclear technology in Duesseldorf.

Named "European Pressurized Water Reactor", the EPR is an evolutional development from the last erected german nuclear power plants and the most modern french N4-type nuclear powerplants. The EPR was designed in german/french cooperation.

Power-supply company TVO from Finland is
the first customer and operator of an EPR-powerplant. Consequently the papermodel
reflects the customer's architectual design
in detail. The power plant is named
"Olkiluoto 3" and will be erected at Finland's westcoast. The power plant will
be put into operation in 2009.

TVO and the manufacturing consortium
signed the contract on December, 18th, 2003;
a few days later the designing process of
the papermodel started.

Framatome ANP GmbH will donate the net profit of selling the papermodel to Vuojoki Mansion (erected 1836), a brillant example of Finland's empire architecture, for it's further preservation and restauration.

Information about EPR-technology maybe obtained from the websites of AREVA NP and TVO.