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Nuclear waste
Posiva Completes Backfilling Trial Run at Repositoryposiva Completes Backfilling Trial Run at Repository
Finnish waste management company Posiva has completed the procedure qualification test on backfill installation at the Onkalo used nuclear fuel repository. Duri…
Spent Fuel (Used Fuel)
Licensing of Finnish Repository Further Delayed
Finland's Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority has been given another one-year extension to complete its review of Posiva Oy's operating licence appli…
Nuclear Reactor
Licensing Of Finnish Repository Further Delayed
Finland's Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority has been given another one-year extension to complete its review of Posiva Oy's operating licence appli…
Nuclear Decommissioning
Canada Selects Location For Used Nuclear Fuel Repository
"This is a historic moment," Nuclear Waste Management OrganizationPresident and CEO Laurie Swami said. "This project will solve an environmental issue and suppo…
Nuclear waste
Successful Start to Trial Run at Finnish Repository
The first stage of the trial run of placing disposal cannisters in the Onkalo used nuclear fuel repository has been completed successfully, Finnish waste manage…
Nuclear waste
Trial Run at Finnish Repository Starts
Finnish waste management company Posiva announced it has begun a trial run of placing disposal cannisters in the Onkalo used nuclear fuel repository. No actual …
Nuclear Equipment
Manufacture of Onkalo Buffer Installation System Completed
The system that will be used to transport and install the bentonite filling between disposal capsules and the bedrock within Finland's planned underground u…
Finland
Posiva Crew Gets to Grips With Drilling Machine
Finnish radioactive waste management company Posiva Oy has completed the drilling of the first two deposition holes at the Onkalo underground used nuclear fuel …
Nuclear Fuel
Sweden’s Government Approves Construction of Spent Nuclear Fuel Repository
Sweden’s government in late January gave radioactive waste management company SKB the green light to proceed with a deep geological repository (DGR) for spent …
Nuclear waste
Swedish Government Must Consider Applications in Parallel, Says SKB
On 20 June, the government asked the radioactive waste management company how it intends to separate the application for the final repository.
Nuclear Fuel
Work Starts on First Disposal Tunnel at Finnish Repository
Excavation of the first final disposal tunnel has started at the Onkalo underground used nuclear fuel repository near Olkiluoto