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The transfer trolley for moving used fuel transport casks has been installed at Finnish waste management company Posiva's encapsulation plant under construction at Olkiluoto. The 30-tonne trolley, manufactured by the French company CSI and delivered to the encapsulation plant earlier in February measures about five metres by four metres. After being transferred from the fuel reception hall one floor below, it was placed on the rails it will use during operation.

Date: Saturday, 17 February 2024
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsfuel-transfer-trolley-installed-at-finnish-encapsulation-plant-11520226

The transfer trolley for moving used fuel transport casks has been installed at Finnish waste management company Posiva's encapsulation plant under construction at Olkiluoto.

Date: Wednesday, 14 February 2024
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Fuel-transfer-trolley-in-place-at-Finnish-encapsul

Finland's Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority (STUK) said its review of Posiva Oy's operating licence application for the world's first used fuel disposal facility is taking longer than expected and will not be completed by the end of this year as planned.

Date: Friday, 29 September 2023
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Completion-of-Finnish-repository-review-delayed

The Finnish Government has granted Fortum a licence to operate the final disposal facility for low- and intermediate-level radioactive waste at the Loviisa NPP site, until the end of 2090. This came after the Finnish Radiation & Nuclear Safety Authority (STUK - Säteilyturvakeskus) had made its decision on the periodic safety assessment of the facility. STUK said both the operating safety and the long-term safety of the facility are at a good level. STUK also said the licensee has the necessary procedures and resources in place to continue safe operation.

Date: Thursday, 06 April 2023
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsfinnish-government-grants-licence-for-loviisa-final-disposal-facility-10733953

Company planning expansion to accommodate waste from decommissioning The Finnish government has granted power company Fortum a licence to operate the final disposal facility for low- and intermediate-level radioactive waste at the two-unit Loviisa power station until the end of 2090.

The Finnish Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority (Stuk) had earlier said that both the operating safety and the long-term safety of Loviisa’s final disposal facility were “at a good level”, Fortum said in a statement. Stuk also said the necessary procedures and resources were in place to continue safe operation.

The final disposal facility, more than 100m underground at the power station site east of Helsinki in southern Finland, has been in operation since 1998.

Fortum is planning to expand the facility so that eventually radioactive waste generated from the decommissioning of Loviisa can be placed there. The expansion is planned to be completed in the late 2040s, before decommissioning begins.

Date: Tuesday, 04 April 2023
Original article: nucnet.org/news/fortum-gets-go-ahead-to-operate-loviisa-radwaste-facility-until-2090-4-1-2023

Finland's State Council has granted a new operating licence to Fortum for its low and intermediate-level waste (LLW/ILW) disposal facility at the Loviisa nuclear power plant. The new licence allows the repository to be operated until 2090, instead of 2055 under the previous licence, and now includes waste from the decommissioning of the Loviisa plant.

Date: Saturday, 01 April 2023
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Fortum-permitted-to-operate-Loviisa-repository-lon

Finnish radioactive waste management company Posiva Oy has completed the drilling of the first two deposition holes at the Onkalo underground used nuclear fuel repository near Olkiluoto using a new boring machine which was operated by its own personnel. The holes are located at a depth of 430 metres in the deposition tunnel built for the Joint Functional Test (JFT).

Date: Friday, 24 February 2023
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Posiva-crew-gets-to-grips-with-drilling-machine

Finnish waste management company Posiva has contracted Bond Technologies of the USA to manufacture, install and commission a friction stir welding system for sealing copper disposal canister lids at its used fuel encapsulation plant under construction at Olkiluoto.

Date: Friday, 01 November 2019
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsposiva-contracts-us-bond-technologies-to-supply-welding-system-7482212

The Korea Radioactive Waste Agency (KORAD) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Finnish waste management company Posiva to exchange technology and know-how related to the disposal of high-level radioactive wastes.

Date: Wednesday, 30 October 2019
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Korean-Finnish-waste-organisations-agree-cooperati

Finnish nuclear waste management company Posiva announced on 23 September that it had laid the foundation stone for the encapsulation plant at its planned final deep geologic disposal facility at Eurajoki near the Olkiluoto nuclear plant.

Date: Tuesday, 01 October 2019
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsfinland-begins-construction-of-encapsulation-plant-7430717