An artist’s impression of a deep borehole for nuclear waste disposal by Sandia National Laboratories in 2012. Red lines show the depth of mined repositories: Onkalo is the Finnish one, and WIPP ...

Finally, Italy is considering 51 sites that could potentially be suitable to host a repository for nuclear waste storage. These plans were first drawn up in 2015 and then published in December 2023.

In the early 1980s, as world governments and the nuclear industry became increasingly concerned about what to do about the long-term storage of radioactive waste, a new field of study developed ...

Called Onkalo, meaning “deep pit” in Finnish, the nuclear waste repository is slated to open in 2024. If all goes to plan, copper casks will safely store spent uranium fuel rods for at least ...

The World Nuclear Association estimates that the nuclear industry produces around 300,000 tonnes of nuclear waste each year, with most of it found in cooling ponds near the reactors where it was used.

When you consider we’ve only been on the planet for 300,000 years, you get a sense of the enormity of our work. Nuclear waste doesn’t know anything about international borders so we need to connect, ...

Finland has built the world’s first deep-earth repository where it will bury nuclear waste for 100,000 years starting 2026. Type your search and press Enter Home ...

More than a quarter million metric tons of highly radioactive waste sits in storage near nuclear power plants and weapons production facilities worldwide, with over 90,000 metric tons in the US alone.

Excavating equipment at the site of the Onkalo repository project, the world’s first permanent spent-nuclear-fuel storage facility, deep in granite bedrock in Finland, in 2017.