Finland muclear plant delayed to mid-2012 -TVO

HELSINKI Jan 13 (Reuters) - A nuclear power plant under construction by the Franco-German Areva-Siemens consortium in Finland will be further delayed to mid-2012, utility TVO said on Tuesday.

"The Areva-Siemens Consortium, the turn-key supplier of the Olkiluoto 3 nuclear power plant unit, has now confirmed TVO´s earlier estimation that the Olkiluoto 3 unit will not be completed until 2012," TVO said in a statement.

"Areva-Siemens CEPFi.PA(SIEGn.DE) has projected completion in June 2012."

The 1,600 MW reactor -- the first to be constructed in Western Europe for more than a decade -- has been delayed for several times from its initial start-up target of 2009. (Reporting by Sakari Suoninen; Editing by David Cowell)