Summary
Finland is about to open the world's first permanent storage site for nuclear waste. The site, called Onkalo, is located on Olkiluoto Island and has been constructed to safely store radioactive waste underground.
Key Facts
- The waste site is called Onkalo, which means "cave" in Finnish.
- It is located on Olkiluoto Island on Finland's west coast.
- Onkalo is designed to permanently store spent nuclear fuel underground.
- The facility is built 1.9 billion-year-old bedrock.
- Construction of Onkalo started in 2004.
- The town of Eurajoki, with about 9,000 residents, is the nearest populated area.
- Many people in Eurajoki work at the nearby nuclear power plant or storage facility.
