#onkalo — Public Fediverse posts
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Die finnische Aufsichtsbehörde STUK hat bestätigt, dass das #Endlager #Onkalo die gesetzlich vorgegebenen Sicherheitsanforderungen erfüllt. Diese Einschätzung ist Voraussetzung zur Erteilung einer Betriebsgenehmigung durch die Regierung. https://stuk.fi/-/sateilyturvakeskus-puoltaa-kayttolupaa-kaytetyn-ydinpolttoaineen-loppusijoituslaitokselle #Atommüll
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#Finnland macht einen weiteren Schritt bei der Endlagerung hochradioaktiver Abfälle. Die Strahlenschutz- und Nuklearsicherheitsbehörde STUK bewertet das geplante #Endlager #Onkalo als betriebssicher. Damit sind die Sicherheitsanforderungen erfüllt und die Inbetriebnahme kann weiter voranschreiten.
Auch Deutschland setzt auf ein tiefengeologisches Endlager und verfolgt damit grundsätzlich denselben Ansatz wie Finnland.
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The World's First #NuclearWaste Tomb Is Nearly Ready to Open
With space for 6,500 tons of #uranium, #Onkalo is aimed at providing permanent storage for spent fuel from #Finland's five #nuclear reactors – three of them located in Olkiluoto.
Spent fuel is planned to be deposited in Onkalo's massive network of tunnels for 100yrs, but operations may be extended if new nuclear reactors are built.
Subsequently, it will be sealed to provide safe storage for at least 100,000yrs.
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Onkalo in Finland is designed to store nuclear waste for ~100,000 years.
That’s longer than recorded history. Longer than most civilisations last.
The engineering is impressive.
But the deeper question is philosophical: how do we communicate danger across millennia?Excellent short video from the IAEA:
https://youtu.be/1AJ4ipoTnA0?si=qJRwmt3WvjkOhUtx -
MIT model predicts nuclear waste behavior deep underground for eons
Nuclear energy projects are on the rise today globally to move the dependence from fossil fuels to cleaner…
#NewsBeep #News #Environment #AU #Australia #Finland #MontTerri #Nuclear #nuclearfuel #nuclearrepository #nuclearwaste #Onkalo #Science #Switzerland #us
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"Disposal of the spent [#nuclear] fuel will begin [at #Onkalo] in the early 2020s and continue for the next 100 years" (Onkalo will store 6,500 tonnes)
"...around 1.1 million tonnes will be produced worldwide over the next 100 years"
"[Geological disposal schemes] are technically challenging and financially draining" (Wired: 24 Apr 2017)
https://www.wired.com/story/olkiluoto-island-finland-nuclear-waste-onkalo/
🔸Not many deep repositories in operation whilst clamour of nuclear power lobby grows louder🤔
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_geological_repository
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🇫🇮: Die Frist für die Prüfung des Antrags der Betreiberfirma Posiva Oy auf Erteilung einer Betriebsgenehmigung für ein #Endlager für abgebrannte Brennelemente wurde aufgrund fehlender Unterlagen verlängert bis zum 31.12.2025. https://stuk.fi/en/-/stralsakerhetscentralen-behover-mer-tid-for-att-bedoma-posivas-ansokan-om-drifttillstand #Onkalo
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#Onkalo tauchte zum ersten Mal im Protokoll der 185. Sitzung des 20. Deutschen Bundestages am 12.09.2024 auf. Das Protokoll findet sich unter https://dserver.bundestag.de/btp/20/20185.pdf
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If you follow #nuclear things, there are stories right now about how Finland is about to put the first nuclear fuel in “permanent" storage. They have been building the Onkalo site to put the spent fuel from their 6 nuclear reactors since 2004.
The key takeaway is that it is more than 80 years since we began generating spent nuclear fuel (the first was by the Manhattan Project to make the plutonium used in the nuclear attack on Nagasaki) and we still have not been able to put one spent fuel rod in "permanent" storage. Finnish waste is far below 1% of global spent nuclear fuel and it has taken this much to get the first rod underground.
Image is of me in a tunnel in Onkalo in 2016.
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#Finland started pre-production testing in the #Onkalo deep geologic storage for spent #nuclear fuel.[^1] Onkalo is the first production-ready deep geologic repository in the world…
…but only if we account for nuclear fuel repositories, because many countries already had been running deep geologic storage sites other hazardous waste for decades. For example, #Germany has not one but two deep geologic repositories storing thousands of tons of arsenic, mercury and cyanide waste from chemical industry.[^2]
And nobody is freaking out about it or chaining themselves to the railways 😉
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Ytterligare ett enormt bra och intressant avsnitt av #P3Dystopia. Den här gången behandlar man #atomsopor. Som finländare tycker jag naturligtvis att man kunde ha berättat mer om Finland, vi är ju längst i världen i processen att ta hand om radioaktivt avfall, men det är ju ett rikssvenskt program, så det är klart att man utgår från läget i Sverige. De ligger tydligen 10-20 år efter oss, men har motsvarande planer som vår ”#Onkalo”.
#kärnkraft #atomkraft #slutbevaring
https://podcasts.apple.com/fi/podcast/p3-dystopia/id1371967398?i=1000639975520 -
So is Meta also going to fund the millennia long "containment" of the spent nuclear fuel rods for their AI bonanza? Or is that just one more hallucination? The #Onkalo repository in Finland was one of the largest construction projects in Europe for a decade, and that is for the spent fuel of five reactors.
"Meta engineer: Only two nuclear power plants needed to fuel AI inference next year"
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And in a shocking move, Sweden decides its millennia long nuclear waste site will be....beside one of its current nuclear power sites. Amazing, just like in Finland, the best place for long-term storage coincidentally is a site already owned by the industry in a company town! Praise!
"Sweden approves nuclear waste storage site"
#nuclear #NuclearWaste #NuclearPower #Forsmark #Onkalo @sts #Anthropocene
https://www.politico.eu/article/sweden-approve-nuclear-waste-storage-site/
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#AFP:llä videojuttu #Onkalo sta, Olkiluodon ydinjätehaudasta.
Le premier cimetière des déchets nucléaires fait son trou en #Finlande.
https://amicale.net/@afpfr/110499045175947416
#Olkiluoto #Suomi #Finland #Finnland #Finlandia #ydinjäte #ydinvoimala #NuclearWaste #nuclear #NuclearPowerplant #CentraleNucléaire #DéchetRadioactif
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#NuclearWaste #NuclearPower #IntoEternity #documentary #Atommüll #Atomkraft #NeinDanke
Haunting documentary
#Onkalo - Into Eternity
Directed by #MichaelMadsen, 2010"I'm now in this place where you should never come."
Onkalo must last 100.000 years.
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Great #news: Finland #Onkalo spent #nuclear fuel repository is nearing completion. Once ready, it will safely store all nuclear waste #Finland produces in the next 100 years. While not perfect solution for handling the waste, it is far the best one devised so far. https://yle.fi/a/74-20013058 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onkalo_spent_nuclear_fuel_repository
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Paikassa, jonne #ydinjäte haudataan.
