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The Swedish approval allows SKB, the developer of Sweden’s deep geological repository, to take final steps and preparations for initial construction of the facility close to the Forsmark nuclear power station, about 140 km north of Stockholm.
“It is an historic decision that gives SKB the opportunity to dispose of the nuclear waste that our generation has created,” said SKB’s chief executive officer Johan Dasht. “That is a very welcome message. We are now looking forward to implementing Sweden’s largest environmental protection project.”
SKB said the project involves investments “in the order of” SEK 19 billion (€1.8bn) and will create approximately 1,500 jobs. The project is being financed by contributions that have already been made by nuclear operators to a national nuclear waste fund.
- Source: Nucnet
- Date: Saturday, 29 January 2022
- Original article: nucnet.org/news/government-approves-skb-s-plans-for-final-repository-for-spent-nuclear-fuel-1-5-2022
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said on 21 January that significant progress had been made in the safe and effective management of radioactive waste globally.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Tuesday, 25 January 2022
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsiaea-report-looks-at-radioactive-waste-and-used-fuel-management-9422915
The challenges the nuclear industry faces are largely external and must be overcome if it is to help tackle the existential threat of climate change, panellists in the Nuclear Energy and its Future session of the Reuters Next conference on 11 January said. These challenges include: the notion nuclear is an out-dated technology; the cost of finance; market design; political changes; perceived competition with renewable energy; and the public's misconceptions about radioactive waste.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Friday, 15 January 2021
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/The-real-challenges-to-nuclear-are-external,-says
As policymakers grapple with the twin challenges of climate change and a post-COVID economic recovery, the benefits of nuclear power are clearer than ever, but the industry still has some way to go in addressing perceptions of its alleged drawbacks with cost, safety and radioactive waste. This was the overriding message of the three panellists in a webinar held last week by Utilities Middle East in partnership with Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Friday, 01 January 2021
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/The-barrier-to-nuclear-is-perception,-says-panel
Finland must ensure appropriate management of all existing and future radioactive waste, regardless of its origin, producer or production method, a working group set up by the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment (TEM) has said. Meanwhile, another working group has made recommendations for improving the investment of assets under the country's nuclear waste management fund.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Thursday, 05 September 2019
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Recommendations-for-Finnish-waste-management
World Nuclear Association was invited to present this week at the opening of the International Atomic Energy Agency’s International Conference on the Management of Spent Fuel from Nuclear Power Reactors, Learning from the Past, Enabling the Future. Mikhail Baryshnikov (TENEX) and Cecile Evans (Orano), chair and deputy chair of the Sustainable Used Fuel Management Working Group, share the industry’s message.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Wednesday, 26 June 2019
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Speech-The-sustainability-of-used-nuclear-fuel-man
Finland’s waste management company, Posiva, has agreed with the Czech Republic's Radioactive Waste Repository Authority (SÚRAO) to share its experience and know-how on developing a repository for used nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste under a €2.75m ($3.03m) four-year service contract. The services will be provided by Posiva subsidiary Posiva Solutions, and Finnish engineering company Saanio and Riekkola Oy. Other suppliers in the project will be SKB International and the Geological Survey of Finland.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Thursday, 20 October 2016
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsfinland-contracted-to-help-with-czech-deep-repository-5038535
Finland’s Posiva, Sweden’s Svensk Kärnbränslehantering (SKB) and Canada’s Nuclear Waste Management Organisation have collaborated on a five-year, (2008-2013) research project, The Greenland Analogue Project (GAP), investigating ice sheet conditions, in relation to the long-term management of used nuclear fuel in a deep geological repository. The focus of the study, the Greenland Ice Sheet, is the second largest ice sheet in the world and comparable to the ice sheets predicted to extend over both Scandinavia and Canada in the future.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Tuesday, 13 September 2016
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsgreenland-ice-sheet-studied-as-part-of-repository-research-5004404
The Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) for disposal of used nuclear fuel from Finland's Hanhikivi-1 NPP being built by Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom at Pyhäjokil has been submitted to the Finnish Ministry of Employment and the Economy (MEE) by operator Fennovoima Oy. This followed signing of a service agreement between Fennovoima Oy and Posiva Solutions Ltd, a marketing division of Posiva Oy, which will enable Fennovoima to benefit from Posiva Oy's expertise in used fuel management.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Monday, 27 June 2016
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsprogress-on-used-fuel-disposal-in-finland-4933909