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Sun Apr 19, 2026, 09:45 PM Sunday

Worlds first permanent nuclear waste site

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

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After decades of construction, the world's first facility for permanently disposing spent nuclear fuel is set to begin operations in Finland, becoming a final resting place for tons of dangerous radioactive waste.
Construction of Onkalo—which means "cave" in Finnish—began on the west coast in 2004. It sits on the secluded island of Olkiluoto, in a dense wooded area. The closest town is Eurajoki, about 15 kilometers (9.3 miles) inland, which is home to about 9,000 people. Many work at the nuclear power plant or storage facility.
The 1 billion euro ($1.2 billion) project could soon become operational, with authorities expected to grant a license within months.
The Associated Press took a tour of the facilities where humans soon will not be allowed to tread.


https://techxplore.com/news/2026-04-finland-spent-nuclear-future-generations.html

The article describes the current state of the art for storing nuclear waste. Note that the site has been under construction for over 20 years. The site must be functional for tens of thousands of years.
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Worlds first permanent nuclear waste site (Original Post) thought crime Sunday OP
It is exceedingly stupid to build nuclear waste dumps. NNadir Tuesday #1

NNadir

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1. It is exceedingly stupid to build nuclear waste dumps.
Tue Apr 21, 2026, 10:53 AM
Tuesday

Used nuclear fuel is a precious resource and in any case, used nuclear fuel has a spectacular record of not harming anyone, unlike fossil fuel waste.

Fossil fuel waste, aka air pollution kills millions of people each year, without a peep from ignorant antinukes.

I always ask antinukes to show - only legitimate publications from the primary scientific literature can be accepted - that the storage of used nuclear fuel over the 70+ years of commercial nuclear power has killed as many people as will die from air pollution in the next eight hours, over six thousand people.

I have been doing this for years here, every time a morally and intellectually bereft fool prattles on about so called "nuclear waste." In all these years no antinuke fool has ever answered this challenge, not once.

It follows that the specious rising of this idiotic point, always made by people who don't give a shit about environmental science or humanity, kills people.

Nuclear energy need not be risk free to be vastly superior to all other forms of energy. It only needs to be vastly superior to all other forms of energy, which it is.

I invite any pro-fossil fuel antinuke - all antinukes are pro-fossil fuel by definition - to let us know where they intend to store the 37 billion tons of carbon dioxide released each year, for which they have direct moral responsibility given their appalling ignorance, for a billion years.

Antinukes just don't give a shit about the environment. They never have and they never will.

Have a nice day.

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