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Finland is on the verge of becoming the first nation to bury spent nuclear fuel rods deep underground for the long term

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Tags: energy, finland, nuclear power, onkalo spent nuclear fuel repository, geological disposal facility, waste.nuclear, power stations.nuclear, bedrock, infrastructure, author.erika benke, source.bbc future
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20230613-onkalo-has-finland-found-the-answer-to-spent-nuclear-fuel-waste-by-burying-it

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Title
Finland's plan to bury spent nuclear fuel for 100,000 years
Authors
Erika Benke
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2756 words

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  1. Kitahara_Kazusa
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    This is an incredibly sensationalist way to say that Finland is storing the waste from their reactors underground, just like how the US has been storing nuclear waste undergrad in New Mexico since...

    This is an incredibly sensationalist way to say that Finland is storing the waste from their reactors underground, just like how the US has been storing nuclear waste undergrad in New Mexico since 1999.

    The article is correct that this is technically different, since the US ended up cancelling the planned underground storage site for civilian nuclear waste, but it's not really a novel idea nor does it actually change anything.

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