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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 sits about 430 metres down in 1.9-billion-year-old bedrock beside the Olkiluoto nuclear plant on the country's west coast.

Updated Oct 30