Finnish regional daily Aamulehti on Friday quoted a Taloustutkimus poll as indicating that about 47 per cent of the public felt that Parliament should reject the permit applications of all three utilities planning building nuclear power stations in Finland, with some 38 per cent of the respondents backing extra nuclear generating capacity.

Aamulehti said 22 per cent of the respondents would like to see a single permit, 11 per cent two and six per cent three permits.

Commissioned by the paper, market research company Taloustutkimus interviewed 1,000 people in early March. The margin of error was stated as three percentage points either way.

STT