Finland Could Be the First Country in the World to Bury Nuclear Waste Permanently

Together with his colleagues, Jewshan Pan, a Professor of Zara Science at the Keth Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden Study The copper land used in expensive nuclear fuel containers in January 2023 is dedicated to the risk of sulfide in water. “Further work is required to define […] The nature and chemistry of the surfaces developed on the surfaces of copper surfaces in sponsored situations, says the paper.

Although the Posva Way looks like its first effective is the repository, other countries are following its leadership. Neighborhood Sweden is also preparing to start working in its own repository, which is intended to hold up to 12,000 metric tons of nuclear fuel spent in Swedish. It is expected to expand more than 60 kilometers if it is finished at a depth of 500 meters. This is a big job that has been on the drawing table for 40 years and has earned its necessary environmental permissions a few months ago. Construction may begin in the next decade and will continue until the decade of the 2080s, the underground space of this repository slowly extends – a Swedish NGO, providing an application made by the nuclear waste review office. Anxiety about the Swedish project is the same as Finnish: the danger of erosion of copper canters, perhaps the result of the expression of radioactive material in underground water.

The Atlantic, on the other hand, Canada is also planning to create storage facilities. The storage still does not exist, but the way forward seems to be relatively free from obstacles – at least no apparent legal. After the 5 -year dialogue and debate, the relevant agencies and citizens have selected a host site in the Township of Ontario Ignance, which is part of the Wabigun Lake Ojibway Nation of the indigenous community. Both the city and the nation were open to the project, seeing it as an investment and a new job source.

France and Switzerland are also working on projects, slowly progressing, even if most of it is a matter of bureaucratic barriers. In the Museum of North -East France, field work CGO project In 2027 it can now begin that it has received a positive assessment of its transparency. The implementing agency has been approved to continue Andra plans, providing it more considered the possible impact of climate change on the above structure.

It has decided to detect Switzerland’s national radioactive-waste-disposal cooperative, Nagra, where its storage facility should be detected for 14 years. It is chosen to create its storage in the Nardlech Logern north of Zurich, as it is a region that is especially rich in very compact Opalin clay, which is perfect for acting as a long -term container for radioactive substances. (The site in Finland is rich in these elements) is expected to finalize the final approval around the referendum, and the storage should be started by 20605.

To the end, Italy is considering 51 sites that may be possible to host an assortment for nuclear waste. These plans were first depicted in 2015 and then published in December 2023. The government has since decided to re -open the application process to adjust the new applications. In the meantime, radioactive wastes in the country are stored in temporary storage decomitioned nuclear power plants, nuclear research facilities and nuclear medicine conspiration and industrial sites.

This story was originally attended Wired Italia And translated from Italian.