Abstract :
This article speaks about the nuclear waste solution in Finland. Posiva, the Finnish company building an underground repository here, says it knows how to imprison nuclear waste for 100 000 years. These multimillennial thinkers are confident that copper canisters of Scandinavian design, tucked into that bedrock, will isolate the waste in an underground cavern impervious to whatever the future brings: sinking permafrost, rising water, earthquakes, copper-eating microbes, or oblivious land developers in the year 25 000. If the Finnish government agrees-a decision is expected by 2012. This site will become the world´s first deep, permanent repository for spent fuel.
Keywords :
contaminated site remediation; radioactive waste repositories; radioactive waste storage; copper canisters; copper-eating microbes; earthquakes; nuclear spent fuel; nuclear waste solution; sinking permafrost; time 100000 yr; time 25000 yr; underground repository; Buildings; Copper; Earthquakes; Humans; Nuclear fuels; Radioactive pollution; Rivers; Roads; Shafts; Ventilation;
