Waste Management

Finland / Posiva Begins Trial Run At Onkalo Repository For Spent Nuclear Fuel

By David Dalton
30 August 2024

Highly likely facility will become first operational deep geological repository in world

Posiva Begins Trial Run At Onkalo Repository For Spent Nuclear Fuel
Four dummy fuel cannisters will be deposited in holes which are eight metres deep in a 70-metre-long final disposal tunnel. Courtesy Posiva.
Finnish nuclear waste management organisation Posiva has begun a trial run of its Onkalo spent nuclear fuel repository for final disposal as full operation approaches of what will probably be the world’s first deep geologic repository for spent nuclear fuel.

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