Threats and Benefits: Updated Information on Local Opinions Regarding the Spent Nuclear Fuel Repository in Finland

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matti Kojo ◽  
Mika Kari ◽  
Tapio Litmanen
Keyword(s):  
Waste Management ◽  
Nuclear Fuel ◽  
Nuclear Waste ◽  
Spent Nuclear Fuel ◽  
Economic Effects ◽  
Nuclear Waste Management ◽  
Main Question ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Joint Research Project ◽  
The University

The aim of the paper is to provide updated information on local opinion regarding the siting of a spent nuclear fuel repository in Finland. The main question is how the residents of the municipality perceive the threats and benefits of the repository. In accordance with the Decision in Principle by the Council of State passed in 2000, the Olkiluoto area in Municipality of Eurajoki was chosen as the location for the repository to accommodate spent nuclear fuel produced in Finland. Updated information on local opinions is needed as the siting process is approaching the next phase, the application for a construction license by 2012. The nuclear waste management company Posiva, owned by the utilities Teollisuuden Voima and Fortum Power and Heat, has also applied for a new Decision in Principle (DiP) for expansion of the repository. The data provided in this paper is based on a survey carried out in June 2008. The respondents were selected from the residents of the municipality of Eurajoki and the neighbouring municipalities using stratified random sampling (N = 3000). The response rate of the survey was 20% (N = 606). The paper is part of a joint research project between the University of Jyva¨skyla¨ and the University of Tampere. The research project “Follow-up research regarding socio-economic effects and communication of final disposal facility of spent nuclear fuel in Eurajoki and its neighbouring municipalities” is funded by the Finnish Research Programme on Nuclear Waste Management (KYT2010).

Site Investigations of Potential Repository Sites in Sweden

2003 ◽  
Vol 807 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Wikberg ◽  
Kaj Ahlbom ◽  
Olle Olsson
Keyword(s):  
Waste Management ◽  
Nuclear Fuel ◽  
Nuclear Waste ◽  
Spent Nuclear Fuel ◽  
Site Investigation ◽  
Management Programme ◽  
Nuclear Waste Management ◽  
Geologic Repository ◽  
The Public ◽  
Site Investigations

ABSTRACTThe Swedish nuclear waste management programme has entered the site investigation phase. Early 2002 SKB received permission from the municipalities of Östhammar and Oskarshamn to perform site investigations for a potential deep geologic repository for spent nuclear fuel. The goal of the site investigation phase is to obtain a permit to build the deep repository for spent nuclear fuel. In parallel with the investigations, consultations will be held with county administrative boards, regulatory authorities and municipalities, as well as with members of the public.

Local Negotiation on Compensation: Siting of the Spent Nuclear Fuel Repository in Finland

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matti Kojo
Keyword(s):  
Waste Management ◽  
Nuclear Fuel ◽  
Nuclear Waste ◽  
Nuclear Power ◽  
Spent Nuclear Fuel ◽  
Negotiation Process ◽  
Background Information ◽  
Nuclear Waste Management ◽  
Power Company ◽  
The Relationship

The aim of the paper is to analyse the local negotiation process between the Municipality of Eurajoki and the nuclear power company Teollisuuden Voima (TVO) and the nuclear waste management company Posiva Oy. The aim of the negotiations was to find an acceptable form of compensation for siting a spent nuclear fuel repository in Olkiluoto, Finland. The paper includes background information on the siting process in Finland, the local political setting in the Municipality of Eurajoki and a description of the negotiation process. The analysis of the negotiations on compensation is important for better understanding the progress of the Finnish siting process. The paper describes the picture of the contest to host the spent nuclear fuel repository. It also provides more information on the relationship between the Municipality of Eurajoki and the power company TVO. The negotiations on compensation and the roles of various players in the negotiations have not been studied in detail because the minutes of the Vuojoki liaison group were not available before the decision of the Supreme Administrative Court in May 2006.

scholarly journals Ion beam techniques for nuclear waste management

2020 ◽  
Vol 232 ◽  
pp. 02004
Author(s):  
Markus Schiffer ◽  
Alexander Stolz ◽  
Erik Strub ◽  
Susan Herb ◽  
Matthias Dewald ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Waste Management ◽  
Nuclear Waste ◽  
Isotopic Ratio ◽  
Ion Beam ◽  
Injection System ◽  
Nuclear Waste Management ◽  
Max Planck ◽  
Reactor Graphite ◽  
The University ◽  
Accelerator System

An automated CO2 gas handling and injection system was developed. It is designed to dilute CO2 samples with blank gas in a mixing volume. The system is intended to be used for the characterization and quantification of 14C content in reactor graphite with accelerator mass spectrometry. A 100 kV accelerator system was developed to measure samples with high 14C content, to test the gas injection system and to measure the 3H content from gaseous releases of reactor graphite. Additionally, the Tandetron model 4130 was purchased from the Max-Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry Jena (Germany) and a concept was developed for installation at the accelerator building of the University of Cologne. With the new 3 MV system, new isotopic ratio measurements and ion beam techniques for material analysis can be performed. The system will be used for nuclear waste management measurements of isotopes, e.g. 3H, 14C, 36Cl, 41Ca and 55Fe, which are difficult to measure with other techniques.

United States high-level radioactive waste management programme: Current status and plans

1997 ◽  
Vol 211 (5) ◽  
pp. 381-392 ◽  
Author(s):  
J A Richardson
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Radioactive Waste ◽  
Waste Management ◽  
Nuclear Fuel ◽  
Nuclear Waste ◽  
Spent Nuclear Fuel ◽  
Management Programme ◽  
Spent Fuel ◽  
Dry Storage ◽  
High Level

Commercial reactor nuclear power generation in the United States is produced by 107 units and, during 1996, represented over 21 per cent of the nation's electricity generation in 34 of the 50 states and, through electric power wheeling, between states in most of the 48 contiguous states. Spent fuel is stored in fuel pools at 70 sites around the country and the projected rate of spent fuel production indicates that the current pool storage will be exceeded in the out years of 2000, 2010 and 2020 at 40, 67 and 69 of these sites respectively. The total accumulation projected by the end of 1996 at reactor sites is 33 700 metric tons of heavy metal (MTHM), with projections for increasing accumulations at annual rates of between 1800 and 2000 to produce an end of life for all commercial nuclear reactors of about 86 000 MTHM. There are presently eight facilities in six states with out-of-pool dry storage amounting to 1010 MTHM and this dry storage demand will increase. Based on all current commercial reactors achieving their 40 year licensed operation lifetimes, the dry storage needs will increase to 3128 MTHM at 28 sites and 20 states by 2000 and 11 307 MTHM at 58 sites in 32 states by 2010; the year 2010 is the present scheduled operation date for the federal mined geological disposal repository being characterized by the USDOE at Yucca Mountain, Nevada. The enabling statute for the federal high-level radioactive waste management programme is the 1982 Nuclear Waste Policy Act (NWPA) which charges the USDOE with the responsibility for the disposal of HLW and spent nuclear fuel. The Act also charges the utilities with the responsibility for managing their spent nuclear fuel until the USDOE can accept it into the federal waste management system. The funding for the federal programme is also stipulated by the Act with the creation of the Nuclear Waste Fund, through which the electric utilities entered into contract with the USDOE by payment of a fee of 1 mill per kilowatt hour sold and for which the USDOE would start collection of spent fuel from the reactor sites starting 31 January 1998.

Posiva's Site Investigations Programme

2003 ◽  
Vol 807 ◽  
Author(s):  
Veijo Ryhänen
Keyword(s):  
Power Plant ◽  
Nuclear Power Plant ◽  
Waste Management ◽  
Nuclear Waste ◽  
Nuclear Power ◽  
Spent Nuclear Fuel ◽  
Crystalline Rock ◽  
Nuclear Waste Management ◽  
Spent Fuel ◽  
Medium Level

Four nuclear power plant units have been operated in Finland over 20 years. The plants are located at two sites, Olkiluoto and Loviisa. Responsibility for nuclear waste management lies on the utilities, which have established a joint company POSIVA to take care of spent fuel disposal and other expert tasks of nuclear waste management.Already in 1983 the Finnish Government set the objectives and the schedule for the national waste management programme. Since then, two shallow underground repositories have been constructed for low- and medium-level operating waste in crystalline rock at the power plant sites. At the end of 2002 the amount of operating waste emplaced in these two facilities was 4923 m3 (total accumulation 6724 m3).Spent nuclear fuel is stored in interim storage pools at the nuclear power plant sites. The total accumulation was 1228 tU at the end of 2002. Today, the main activities in nuclear waste management concern spent fuel disposal deep in the Finnish bedrock. Apart from technical and scientific issues, a major challenge faced has been the creation of sufficient public acceptance, which is a must in order to obtain favourable political decisions.

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