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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]
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 .
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
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.
Tero Varjoranta was named as the deputy director general United Nations nuclear inspectorate the IAEA in 2013. [6] The director general of Nuclear Safety Authority, Jukka Laaksonen, became Rosatom Overseas Vice President immediately after retiring. This was criticised but according to media reporting there was no legislation to prevent it.
Officials said nuclear waste could continue to be emplaced at WIPP through 2080, and the site could eventually take in 20 shipments per week. Nuclear waste repository could be open for decades ...
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]
However, a Finnish law passed in 1994 prohibited the transport of nuclear waste abroad. [111] With this law, Finland became the first country that decided to encapsulate spent nuclear fuel into deep geological repositories. The construction of the first such repository, Onkalo, is set to begin in 2012, with an estimated completion date of 2020 ...