Eurajoki

Eurajoki [ ˌ eu̯rɑ joki ] (Swedish Euraåminne ) is a municipality with 5924 inhabitants ( 31 December 2012) in the southwestern Finnish landscape Satakunta. It is located about 30 kilometers south of the port city of Pori at the mouth of the river Eurajoki in the Gulf of Bothnia. Eurajoki is exclusively Finnish speakers.

Policy

The political Eurajoki there since 1869 and in addition to the Kirchdorf Eurajoki includes the towns of AuVi, Hankkila, Huhta, Ilavainen, Irjanne, Kainu, Kaukomäki, Kaukonpieli, Kaunissaari, Koivuniemi, Kuivalahti, Köykkä, Lapijoki, Lavila, Linnamaa, Lutta, Mullila, Pappila, Pihlaus, Rikantila, Saari, Sydänmaa, Tahkoniemi, Taipale, Tarvola, Vaimala, Vuojoki, and Väkkärä.

Eurajoki has been twinned with the German town of Weener.

Geography

The landscape of the municipality is dominated by the still ongoing postglacial land uplift, emerged as a consequence of large parts of present-day mainland only in recent centuries from the sea. Thus, the medieval fortress Liinmaa was originally on an island near the mouths of the rivers Eurajoki and Lapinjoki in the Baltic Sea, but is grown together through the Landhub to the mainland. Of architectural interest is the manor Vuojoki, which was constructed in 1836 according to plans by Carl Ludwig Engel in the Empire style.

Nuclear power

The counting to Eurajoki Baltic Sea island of Olkiluoto is the location of the nuclear power plant Olkiluoto with two of the four nuclear power plants in Finland, a third reactor is under construction. Your performance covered around one fifth of the electricity consumption of the country. For power plant complex also includes a nuclear repository.

Pictures

The Olkiluoto NPP with the planned new reactor ( photomontage )