Finnish-Russian teen banned from school field trip to nuclear power plant

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1. Lol ok well this is a bit ridiculous, no?

2. Sounds logical to me. Why did you post this OP? What are your thoughts on it? 

3. Solid risk assesment. I wouldn’t let any teenagers or children in such facilities.

4. The human rights office should removed from finland because right now finland is top 1 of the countrys in europe where people of other origins are discriminated!

5. Unfortunate for sure but if the power plant has decided that they won’t allow russian nationals to visit I wouldn’t expect them to make exceptions

6. Oh no! A dual citizen of a country which is the only imperalist nation in our midst is not allowed to visit a piece of critical infrastructure.

7. I don’t see a problem here unless the school assigns her a presentation or some other busywork for missing the oh-so-important nuclear plant tour.

   Unless she’s a total nerd, I’ll bet she’s happier farting around the mall or whatever teenagers do nowadays with their free time.

8. The biggest surprise for me was the fact that there was a field trip to a nuclear power plant… I thought it only happens in the Simpsons…

9. Just look at what’s going on in Zaporizhia npp for the last 3 years. No russian should step a foot inside our critical infrastructure.

10. So, when he will be 18 he is not going to serve in the Finnish army, right?

11. In Finland Russians are a red cloth.

12. Olkiluoto is really cool, too bad Russia decided to descend into fascism and denied Russian citizens in navigating the world freely.

13. It says wrong.
    Thr student was not banned from the trip but the entry to nuclear plant.
    Entry to nuclear plant visitor center was cleared.

14. I find it very funny that discrimination is even thought of.

15. I don’t understand, security through obscurity is not security; the Kremlin does not need to use Russian nationals to figure out how a nuclear power plant goes, if they are going to send a spy, they get the information from a Finnish national that already works there or any contractor from any other country that has the plant plans.

    It’s therefore their own workers who are the biggest threat, not some random people.

    What technical capacity does a civilian even have to do an assessment by just looking around?

    And what are they exactly trying to hide, design flaws? what the hell?…

    I can understand, that they don’t want to be friendly to the Kremlin but this achieves absolutely nothing, it just seems to be some attempt at xenophobia and not security; security through obscurity is not security, I don’t care how much downvotes I get; at least I’ve worked in software security before, not the same, but christ, sounds like a joke.

16. I read this today and couldn’t believe it. I hope the family sues. This is ludicrous, at least assuming the decision was based on zero evidence other than dual nationality. News flash, most people leave their ‘home’ countries for a reason! Imagine the case you leave your home country specifically because you disagree with the way things are going politically and seek refuge elsewhere only to be told ‘we can’t trust your child… not YOU, but your child’. Bullshit. I’m being serious when I say the only active support of what Russia is doing that I have personally heard in Finland has come from a family member of my partner. And they are 100% Finnish and have a PhD at that! To this day that still floors me. They were spouting out the whole NATO… no choice… yada…yada… the entire propaganda campaign word for word. So what is the logic here? Obviously there are at least SOME supporters of Russia in Finland that are Finnish, so why risk having these trips at all? Again, if they have some reason for their suspicion then I would gladly accept that, but the article doesn’t allude to any. The kid is a CITIZEN! I can’t believe any educated Finnish person would be OK with this.

17. Wasn’t this built with the help of finnovoima which has many many Russian employees?

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