Forty one countries use nuclear energy but finland is the first nation in the world to line up a final storage place. X equals waste created by nuclear power plants and y equals barriers to prevent particles from spent fuel rods from reaching the biosphere. This is the finnish view at least when it comes to the final disposal of nuclear waste.
That responsibility for nuclear waste be taken from the energy department and put in the hands of an organization created solely for that purpose. It had another finland like recommendation as well. Many long term waste management options have been investigated worldwide which seek to provide publicly acceptable safe and environmentally sound solutions to the management of intermediate level waste and high level radioactive waste.
Most low level radioactive waste is typically sent to land based disposal immediately following its packaging. And intermediate level waste including the asse ii waste storage facility in. Three of finland s five nuclear plants are on olkiluoto owned by teollisuuden voyma oy tvo and fortum oyj.
Finland is moving ahead with a system to store radioactive nuclear waste for 100 000 years a possible example for other nuclear countries still struggling to come up with a plan. Finland s incredible permanent nuclear waste storage facility a cement tomb being built up to 450 metres underground is set to become the world s first long term answer to the problem of. A 3 billion us 3 2 billion facility on olkiluoto an island off finland s west coast will start storing waste in a deep underground repository.
How will finland store its nuclear waste. Finland s plan to establish the world s first underground nuclear waste disposal tool a step forward on tuesday when its builder posiva announced a 500 million euro 569 55 million investment in. World s 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.
The facility named onkalo meaning small cave or cavity is being built in the granite bedrock at the. After the finnish nuclear energy act 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 very long term underground storage facility for finland s spent nuclear fuel.
