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 ...

Radioactive waste from nuclear plants is stored in temporary facilities around the world. Finland has a different idea: burying the waste forever, 1,400 ft underground encased in metal.

Finland is the only country to build a long-term high-level nuclear waste storage facility. It is situated on the island of Olkiluoto where three nuclear reactors are located.

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If all goes according to plan in the next five to 10 years, Finland will begin filling up its underground labyrinth with the unwanted waste, marking the world’s first long-term storage solution ...

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The radioactive waste question has bedeviled the energy sector and made nuclear power controversial, but the Finns have a plan to dispose of it for 100,000 years. News Today's news ...

Finland will store nuclear waste in a new underground tomb starting in 2024. ... Posivia expects the site to be a safe and secure storage site for nuclear waste for at least the next 100,000 years.

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Nuclear waste. We've all heard ... the waste casks are then moved to the storage ... is already operating one to handle waste from nuclear weapons production. Finland is also expected to open a ...

Finland has become the first country in the world to give a construction license for a permanent underground nuclear waste repository, the center-right government said on Thursday.

The project will store waste from the decades-old nuclear power complex next door. Last month, Finland switched on Olkiluoto-3, the third and biggest generator at the power station here.