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Minister who helped steer the licence decision

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

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Said current law offers no sanction for the clearing

Finnish police have opened a criminal investigation into Google's subsidiary Tuike Finland over suspected breaches of the country's Water Act at the Muhos data center site. Officers are examining drainage and water management at the site, where about 330 hectares of forest were cleared before the required environmental review was finished. A guilty finding could lead to a corporate fine.

Updated Oct 24