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April 14, 2026

A 1.9 billion-year-old bedrock will soon house the world's first permanent nuclear waste site

  • The world-first facility for permanently disposing spent nuclear fuel is set to begin operations in Finland after decades of construction.
    • By JAMES BROOKS and STEPHANIE LIECHTENSTEIN
    Associated Press

    AP Photo/James Brooks [enlarge]
    Geologist Tuomas Pere walks down a disposal tunnel inside the Posiva Onkalo nuclear waste repository on the island of Olkiluoto, Finland.

    OLKILUOTO, Finland — With the push of a button, the elevator descends hundreds of meters in seconds into the dark depths of Onkalo.


     
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