Documentary Examines One of Globe's Few Concrete Plans for Rad Waste — in Finland

摘要

While most of the world's countries have no concrete plans for storing the high-level radioactive waste produced by their nuclear reactors, a new film documents one of the few exceptions - Finland. Finland is building a repository called Onkalo (which is Finnish for "hiding place") that is drilled thousands of feet deep into the granite bedrock on an island 300 kilometers northwest of Helsinki. When Onkalo is finished, probably around 2020, it will be large enough to store all the radioactive waste Finland will generate in the next hundred years, after which it will be closed and sealed permanently.