The leader in this race is Finland, which has dug the underground ... potentially be suitable to host a repository for nuclear waste storage. These plans were first drawn up in 2015 and then ...

Finland, in 2018.Credit...Lehtikuva/Reuters The barriers to permanently storing nuclear waste aren’t as much technical as about planning and politics. Permanent nuclear waste storage facilities ...

Finland has a different ... of how to future-proof nuclear waste storage has been on scientists' minds for a while. From the 1970s scientists proposed a range of wacky ideas, from genetically ...

The first-ever 'tomb' for nuclear waste, located nearly 1,500 feet below the surface, will soon be sealed off from humans for 100,000 years to break down safely. Finland's $4 billion Onkalo ...

Currently, there are thousands of metric tons of used solid fuel from nuclear ... radioactive liquid waste from weapons production sitting in temporary storage containers. Finland has built ...

The storage of nuclear ... to hold all of Finland’s nuclear waste until about the year 2100, and is meant to contain spent fuel rods for 100,000 years. The design relies on multiple barriers ...

The Finnish government and nuclear regulator ... of the costs and schedule of waste management. "The primary objective of the national programme is to ensure that all the spent fuel and radioactive ...

The researchers said these batteries would be used near where the nuclear waste is produced, such as in nuclear waste storage pools or ... A larger surface area also helps the solar cell generate ...