Finland's nuclear waste solution.

Finland's nuclear waste solution.

This article speaks about the nuclear waste solution in Finland. Posiva, the Finnish company building an underground repository here, says it knows how to imprison nuclear waste for 100 000 years. These multimillennial thinkers are confident that copper canisters of Scandinavian design, tucked into...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:IEEE spectrum 46, 12 (2009).
Main Author: Upson, S.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Copper canisters.
Copper-eating microbes.
Earthquakes.
Nuclear spent fuel.
Nuclear waste solution.
Sinking permafrost.
Time 100000 yr.
Time 25000 yr.
Underground repository.