Nuclear Waste Finland

2869 m 3 low and medium level waste is stored in interim storage facilities and 6265 m 3 in surface or near surface final disposal facilities at the nuclear power plant sites.

Largest nuclear power plant in the world wiki. While a number of countries are considering deep geological disposal repositories finland is the only country that has begun the construction of a repository for the final disposal of its spent nuclear fuel. Inside secret underground tunnels storing nuclear waste for 100000 years the worlds first underground nuclear waste dump is being built deep in the bedrock beneath a remote finnish island. A fifth reactor is under construction and another is planned to take the nuclear contribution to about 60 and replace coal.

Very low level waste is released into the sea or deposited at landfill sites. When electricity is produced in a nuclear power plant this generates nuclear waste which due to its radioactivity demands special treatment. The overall supervision of nuclear waste management is the responsibility of the ministry of economic affairs and employment.

There are a total of four nuclear power plant units in the two finnish nuclear power plants at eurajoki and loviisa. The fifth is under construction. This provision covers all future measures.

The nuclear energy act also prohibits nuclear wastes importation into finland. In 1983 the finnish government began making plans for a disposal facility and in 1987 it ruled that the countrys two nuclear energy companies tvo and fortum oyj should set aside funds for. The onkalo spent nuclear fuel repository at olkiluoto was selected in 2000 to become the worlds first deep geological repository of spent nuclear fuel.

It is near the olkiluoto nuclear power plant in the municipality of eurajoki on the west coast of finlandit is being constructed by posiva and is based on the kbs 3 method of nuclear waste burial developed in sweden by svensk kaernbraenslehantering ab skb. All spent fuel will be permanently buried in bedrock. Treatment storage and final disposal of spent fuel and radioactive waste as well as decommissioning of the plants.

Power companies in finland pay annual contributions to the state nuclear waste management fund which is a segregated fund operating under the auspices of meae. The onkalo spent nuclear fuel repository is a planned deep geological repository for the final disposal of spent nuclear fuel. It decides the principles and draws up the schedules that power companies must abide by.

The finnish nuclear energy act was amended in 1994 so that all nuclear waste produced in finland must be disposed of in finland.