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Eurajoki
Municipality in Satakunta, Finland

Eurajoki is a municipality of Finland located in the region of Satakunta in the province of Western Finland. The municipality has a population of 9,053 (31 December 2024) and covers an area of 1,504.96 square kilometres (581.07 sq mi) of which 298.39 km2 (115.21 sq mi) is water. The population density is 17.58 inhabitants per square kilometre (45.5/sq mi).

The municipality is unilingually Finnish.

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Economy

Three of Finland's five nuclear reactors are on the island of Olkiluoto in Eurajoki,3 and a fourth one is planned since 2008.4 The two other operating reactors are at the Loviisa Nuclear Power Plant.

Site-preparation for the construction of the Onkalo spent nuclear fuel repository, a deep geological repository for spent nuclear fuel, is going on (as of Q4 2022).5 The site will be a permanent facility for spent-fuel storage.6

Transport

The distance from the church village of Eurajoki to the nearest town, Rauma, is 15 kilometres (9.3 mi), and to the nearest city, Pori, is 35 kilometres (22 mi).7 Highway 8 (E8) and the railway between Kokemäki and Rauma8 run through the municipality.

Politics

Results of the 2011 Finnish parliamentary election in Eurajoki:

Notable people

See also

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References

  1. "Population increased most in Uusimaa in 2024". Population structure. Statistics Finland. 2025-01-23. ISSN 1797-5395. Retrieved 2025-01-23. https://stat.fi/en/publication/cm0njtpitjj3a08w3km79kf4k ↩

  2. "Area of Finnish Municipalities 1.1.2018" (PDF). National Land Survey of Finland. Retrieved 30 January 2018. http://www.maanmittauslaitos.fi/sites/maanmittauslaitos.fi/files/attachments/2018/01/Suomen_pa_2018_kunta_maakunta.pdf ↩

  3. Pukkila, Tapio (21 April 2023). "Eurajoki on monen mielessä yhtä kuin Olkiluoto – pitäisikö kunta nimetä uudelleen ydinvoimalasaarensa mukaan?". Yle (in Finnish). Retrieved 21 April 2023. https://yle.fi/a/74-20027630 ↩

  4. "Environmental study for Olkiluoto 4". World Nuclear News. 15 February 2008. Retrieved 21 April 2023. http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/NN/Environmental_study_for_Olkiluoto_4_150208.html ↩

  5. https://klassekampen.no/utgave/2022-10-29/kjernefamilien. Klassekampen.no. Retrieved 2022-10-29 https://klassekampen.no/utgave/2022-10-29/kjernefamilien ↩

  6. https://klassekampen.no/utgave/2022-10-29/kjernefamilien. Klassekampen.no. Retrieved 2022-10-29 https://klassekampen.no/utgave/2022-10-29/kjernefamilien ↩

  7. "Eurajoki - Portaali" (in Finnish). Municipality of Eurajoki. Retrieved September 23, 2021. http://www.eurajoki.fi/ ↩

  8. Rauman rautatien historiaa (in Finnish) https://web.archive.org/web/20061011074742/http://www.saariselka.sci.fi/rautatie/rauma/ ↩