Onkalo Nuclear Waste Facility

Finland plans to put all the nuclear waste produced in the country in onkalo the worlds first permanent underground repository of its kind.

Uae starts first nuclear power plant in the arab world. Radioactive waste remains dangerous to humans for millennia. Kimmo kemppainen research manager for the onkalo repository project in one of the tunnels 1400. The onkalo nuclear waste disposal facility under construction in olkiluoto finland will be the worlds first permanent geological repository for spent nuclear fuel and high level radioactive waste.

Onkalo will be ready to take waste in 2020 and then will be finally sealed in 2120 after which it will not be opened for 100000 years. The onkalo spent nuclear fuel repository is a planned deep geological repository for the final disposal of spent nuclear fuel. The onkalo tunnels operator posiva said the final disposal facility will consist of two sections.

The facilitys construction began in 2004 and by the time it is completed will. The 444m555m underground nuclear waste storage facility is being developed and will be operated by posiva a joint venture between. The above ground encapsulation plant where nuclear fuel will be received dried and packed into.

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. Finland shows the rest of how nuclear waste can be dealt with 243562436jpg. Worlds first nuclear waste storage facility in finland moves forward developer posiva plans to store spent nuclear fuel at a depth of around 400 to 450 metres in the onkalo bedrock on olkiluoto.

Onkalo exists to protect humanity from its effects.