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After the Finnish Nuclear Energy Act [7] was amended in 1994 to specify that all nuclear waste produced in Finland must be disposed of in Finland, Olkiluoto was selected in 2000 as the site for a long-term underground storage facility for Finland's spent nuclear fuel.
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 .
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.
Because the reactor was small, the amount of waste generated was also small, especially when compared to the amount of waste from decommissioning of a full-size nuclear power plant. [6] The dismantling waste was transported to the low- and intermediate-level waste final repository in Loviisa [9] and placed in Finnish bedrock. The ...
State and congressional leaders of both political parties in Texas and New Mexico opposed storing nuclear waste in the Permian Basin region.
Sep. 24—WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congressman August Pfluger (TX-11) and Congressman Mike Levin (CA-49) Tuesday introduced the bipartisan Nuclear Waste Administration Act of 2024, which would ...
The film received overall positive reviews from Swedish film critics, with an average score of 3.6 of 5 according to Kritiker.se. [5] Praise was given for the suggestive presentation of the daunting task of communicating the dangers of nuclear waste far into the future, as well as the great dangers of handling the by-products of nuclear energy. [6]