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It will be the world's first long-term disposal facility for spent nuclear fuel. [a] [3] It is being constructed by Posiva, and is based on the KBS-3 method of nuclear waste burial developed in Sweden by Svensk Kärnbränslehantering AB (SKB). The facility will be operational by 2026, and decommissioned by 2100. [4] [5] [6]
Finland’s Nuclear Energy Act prohibits export of nuclear waste. However, the law has an exception, according to which the prohibition does not apply to waste from a research reactor. [ 6 ] In February 2021, the fuel of the reactor was transported to Denver , where the United States Geological Survey will use the fuel for several years in its ...
Posiva Oy is a Finnish company with headquarters in the municipality of Eurajoki, Finland.It was founded in 1995 by Teollisuuden Voima (60% of stock) and Fortum (40% of stock), [1] two Finnish nuclear plant operators, for researching and creating a method of final disposal of spent nuclear fuel from their plants.
The Finnish Nuclear Energy Act was amended in 1994 so that all nuclear waste produced in Finland must be disposed of in Finland. [31] All spent fuel will be permanently buried in bedrock. The Onkalo spent nuclear fuel repository at Olkiluoto was selected in 2000 to become the world's first deep geological repository of spent nuclear
The Onkalo spent nuclear fuel repository is a deep geological repository for the final disposal of spent nuclear fuel, the first such repository in the world. It is currently under construction at the Olkiluoto plant by the company Posiva , owned by the nuclear power plant operators Fortum and TVO .
In April 2001, the Canadian federal government introduced an Act regarding the long-term management of nuclear fuel waste. Also known as the Nuclear Fuel Waste Act, this legislation came into effect on November 15, 2002. [11] However, this legislation dealt only with the long-term management of used nuclear fuel (high-level waste), not L&ILW. [12]
The Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 established a timetable and procedure for constructing a permanent, underground repository for high-level radioactive waste by the mid-1990s, and provided for some temporary storage of waste, including spent fuel from 104 civilian nuclear reactors that produce about 19.4% of electricity there. [39]
Vincent Ialenti is an American anthropologist who studies the culture of nuclear energy and weapons waste organizations. [1] He is the author of Deep Time Reckoning, [2] an anthropological exploration of how experts assessed the potential impact of Finland's Onkalo spent nuclear fuel repository on future ecosystems and civilization. [3] [4] [5]