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Further Steps Towards Licensing: Underground Characterisation Started for the Spent Fuel Repository in Finland

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 March 2011

Juhani Vira
Juhani Vira*
Affiliation:
Posiva Oy 27160 OLKILUOTO, Finland
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Abstract

Pursuant to the Decision-in-Principle of 2001 the Finnish programme for geologic disposal of spent fuel has now moved to the phase of underground characterisation of the repository site. The main objective of this programme phase is to confirm – or refute – the suitability of the Olkiluoto site by investigations conducted underground at the actual depth of the repository. The construction work of the access tunnel to the rock characterisation facility (ONKALO) started in the late summer of 2004. The site research and investigations work aims at the maturity needed for submission of the application for construction license of the actual repository in 2012. This requires, however, that also the technology has reached the maturity needed. The design and technical plans form the necessary platform for the development of the safety case for spent fuel disposal. A plan, “road map”, has been produced for the portfolio of reports that should demonstrate the safety of disposal as required by the criteria set by the government and further detailed by the safety authority, STUK.

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Research Article
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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 932: Symposium – Scientific Basis for Nuclear Waste Management XXIX , 2006 , 124.1
Copyright
Copyright © Materials Research Society 2006

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