Finland is building the world's first permanent nuclear waste repository.

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Finland is building the world's first permanent nuclear waste repository.


The new Onkalo facility in Finland meets all safety requirements and can be commissioned. Finland is establishing the world's first permanent nuclear waste repository there.

This message was made by the Finnish Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority (STUK).

They stated that they approve the issuance of a license to Posiva, the company that will operate the facility, to operate a permanent spent nuclear fuel storage facility. The license will be valid until 2070. A statement on the organization's website stated:

The Center for Radiation and Nuclear Safety supports the issuance of a license to operate a spent nuclear fuel disposal facility.

The Finnish government will decide this fall whether a permit will be issued. Among other things, approval for the project requires permission from the country's Ministry of Labor. However, Ilkka Poikolainen, head of the operating company, believes the project's chances of approval are very high.

The facility is planned to be located near the village of Euraisk on the country's west coast, near the Olkiluoto nuclear power plant, 240 kilometers from the Finnish capital. What makes this burial site unique is that it is designed to last for 100 years.

The waste will be loaded into copper-lined cast iron capsules. This coating will protect the containers from corrosion. The packaged fuel will then be lowered into boreholes to a depth of approximately 400 meters.
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  1. + 15
    4 August 2026 19: 53
    So what, let them bury it. We'll reuse the spent fuel. And we have enough reserves for hundreds of years. They can't catch up with us in nuclear energy.
    1. +5
      4 August 2026 20: 17
      The Finnish government will decide whether a permit will be issued in the fall.

      I have no doubt that the permit will be issued! Specifically.

      And I have no doubt that Finnish President Stubb, a Finn on his mother's side and a Swede on his father's, who is married to an Englishwoman and whose wife and children are British citizens and permanent residents of London, will definitely support this project. After all, his father, the interim Finnish President Stubb, will have no future earning enough money for himself and his family to support his British family in London!

      There was definitely some interstate corruption going on here involving Stubb! feel
      Ordinary Finns will pay for this radioactive contamination of Finnish territory and for the anti-Finnish policy of the current authorities in favor of NATO.
      1. 0
        4 August 2026 21: 12
        Left-wing publicist Alexander Kommari described Alexander Stubb as "rabid Euro-Atlantist" in the sense that former Finnish Prime Minister Alexander Stubb is indeed an example of a Finnish political leader who has long been deeply integrated into the global elite.

        REFERENCE
        Stubb is Swedish on his father's side, his father being the famous hockey player and sports official Göran Stubb (director of the NHL's European scouting agency).
        Education. Alexander Stubb received his school education in the American state of Florida, after serving in the army he continued his education at the University of the American state of Carolina, and defended his diploma in political science and the history of civilization at the Sorbonne in France.
        Career. As an employee of the Finnish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Stubb specialized in relations with the European Union, having served as an adviser to the President of the European Commission and as a Member of the European Parliament.
        In 2008 he became Minister of Foreign Affairs of Finland.

        When Stubb was Finland's Foreign Minister, he frequently traveled to Russia. He knows Russia well and is personally acquainted with many members of the political elite—and yet a completely pro-American and Brussels character!

        See details - https://spb.aif.ru/politic/beshenyy_evroatlantist_ili_otkrytyy_gey_kto_stanet_prezidentom_finlyandii?ysclid=msexvi09bx794990649
      2. +1
        5 August 2026 07: 38
        Ordinary Finns will pay for this radioactive contamination of Finnish territory and for the anti-Finnish policy of the current authorities in favor of NATO.

        Everything that is happening in and around Finland has become possible only with the tacit consent and approval of ordinary Finns who hate us.
        1. +1
          5 August 2026 13: 35
          Quote: old rats
          Everything that is happening in Finland and around Finland has become possible only with the tacit consent and approval of ordinary Finns who hate us.

          Not ordinary Finns, but traitors to Russia and Russophobes like the nationalist-ambitious Russian General Mannerheim, who was determined to achieve his own personal supreme power in a separate region of the Russian Empire!
          By the way, the same thing happened to General Dudayev with his Ichkeria!

          At the same time, everything comes down to the work of Western intelligence agents in a country with people with a particularly psychopathologically inflated self-esteem and with inflated ambitions on the path to their self-realization according to the principle of "Divide! and Conquer!"
        2. +1
          5 August 2026 14: 08
          The smaller the state, the smaller its population, the weaker it is economically in all respects - the easier it is for supranational globalists to manage it in their own interests!

          At the same time, we mustn't forget the role of the individual in history! Foreign intelligence understands this very well and widely applies it when creating their supranational spy networks in any country or nation-state.
          But in Russia, we, along with our country's leadership, in our domestic and foreign policy at all levels, for some reason constantly depart from this practical understanding as historical truth—specifically, we undermine this logical postulate, i.e., we reject the understanding of the existence of this historical social axiom. Why?
          Because in Russia and throughout the post-Soviet space, the socialist system was replaced by a bourgeois one and a pro-Western-colonialist system of public education was introduced.
  2. +7
    4 August 2026 19: 54
    Finland is building the world's first permanent nuclear waste repository.

    It seems that the dates decided that their nature was too pure compared to the rest of Europe and decided to fix it. lol
    No, I understand that Russia also imports spent nuclear fuel, but we import it for reprocessing, not storage. For us, it's raw material, not waste. No other country in the world can afford such raw materials, because they lack the expertise.
    And the Date Palms decided to defile their own territory. They'll get paid, of course; after all, their economy has taken a significant hit since severing ties with Russia. But is it really worth it to defile themselves for hundreds and thousands of years? what
    1. +1
      5 August 2026 07: 47
      The main thing is that this garbage dump is kept away from our borders!
  3. +3
    4 August 2026 19: 56
    It is good that the storage facility will not be located in the Imatra area.
  4. +1
    4 August 2026 20: 03
    It is designed for 100 thousand years.

    It seems that the "hot Finnish guys" have gone a bit too far with their planning horizons.
  5. +3
    4 August 2026 20: 12
    "gift" to descendants...
    However, where is it wrong?
  6. +1
    4 August 2026 20: 12
    Quote: K-50
    I understand that Russia also imports spent nuclear fuel into its territory, but we import it for reprocessing, not storage. For us, it's raw material, not waste. No other country in the world can afford such raw materials, because they lack the expertise.

    good Yes
    Rosatom is ahead of the rest!
  7. +4
    4 August 2026 20: 21
    I wonder if those hot-blooded Finnish guys have forgotten that Unit 2 of the Loviisa NPP was originally planned for shutdown and decommissioning in 2027? Or have they decided to extend the life of the unit commissioned in 1977? In either case, they'll have to bow to Rosatom. After all, the plant has two VVER-440/213 reactors, the same as those at the Kola NPP. And for those hot-blooded Finnish guys, Russia is currently their most feared neighbor... Or, when spent nuclear fuel from a VVER reactor needs to be extracted and sent for reprocessing, Russia is the most reliable partner in the energy sector?
  8. +1
    4 August 2026 20: 22
    The first question is what kind of waste do they want to bury - the oyat left over from reactor unloading or the oyat from reprocessing? If they want to reprocess it, then where? In Europe, it seems, only the French do it... The Finns have 5 reactors - each reactor produces 20-30 oyat per year... And how many of these capsules are they planning to make?...
    1. 0
      4 August 2026 21: 34
      England and Japan too. But Japan is a bit far away, although the proximity of the sea makes it even out.
  9. +3
    4 August 2026 20: 30
    A fair wind with the smell of radiation to the Finns in the ass. wassat The price for Suomi's accession to NATO. Has Ukraine crawled away from the radioactive waste cemetery? The Finns are so lucky. laughing
    1. +2
      4 August 2026 20: 45
      The Finnish people have already gotten used to the radon from Finnish granite. Instead of Russian vodka, they're choosing imported "radiation"—a smart solution. The next Finnish prime minister will have two heads—one head is good, but two heads are better—but it's neither pretty nor convenient. drinksAnd we need twice as much vodka, but what an advertisement for Finland vodka that would be. wassat
      1. +1
        5 August 2026 03: 13
        Judging by the photo, this Stubb has long since become a self-propelled nuclear waste storage facility 😂😂😂
  10. +2
    4 August 2026 20: 40
    The Mannerheim Line passed not only through natural landscapes, but also through the minds of the Chukhonians. hi
  11. BAI
    +1
    4 August 2026 22: 04
    VO wrote about this project several years ago. Certainly before SVO. And maybe even before 2014.
    And then the timeframe of 100,000 years was announced.
    Why not 200,000 or 500,000?
    Nobody will check it anyway.
  12. +1
    5 August 2026 03: 12
    Joined NATO - now please be kind enough to taste all the delights of "membership" of this Satanist sect, including becoming a nuclear dump😂😂😂🤷🤷🤷