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August 19, 2022 rockman Project Related Comments Off on Finnish Deep Nuclear Waste Disposal Reaches Milestone

Finland is leading the world when it comes to permanently disposing of spent nuclear fuel in a deep geologic repository. Their Onkalo facility recently completed excavation of the first of five final disposal tunnels, a […]

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France starts on nuclear waste storage project

August 16, 2010 rockman Miscellaneous Comments Off on France starts on nuclear waste storage project

Apparently the French are working on their nuclear waste storage facility, they already have a research laboratory constructed about 1/2-km underground. The actual repository will come on line around 2025 and be one of the […]

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Swedish Nuclear Waste Repository Could Begin Construction in 2016

June 24, 2009 rockman Project Related Comments Off on Swedish Nuclear Waste Repository Could Begin Construction in 2016

ENR reports that a nuclear waste repository for spent nuclear fuel in Sweden could begin construction as early as 2016. The facility would consist of 50km of tunnels in granite bedrock up to 500-m deep. […]