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Finland licenses world's first permanent nuclear waste repository

Overseeing final commissioning tests before disposal starts

Finland's government granted the world's first operating licence for a permanent spent-fuel repository on 22 October. The Onkalo facility, carved into 1.8-billion-year-old granite near the Olkiluoto nuclear plant, will bury Finland's used reactor fuel 430 metres underground.

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