00:02After decades of construction, the world's first facility for permanently disposing radioactive waste is set to begin operations in Finland.
00:12The site is located near three of Finland's five nuclear reactors.
00:16It was chosen for its bedrock known for its high stability and low risk of earthquakes.
00:20The isolation from the civilization and mankind on the surface is important because of the radiation caused by the waste.
00:31But the thing is that by doing this final disposal, we can safely, we can dispose of the waste more
00:41safely than by storing it on facilities located on the ground surface.
00:47Onkalo can store 6,500 tons of spent nuclear fuel buried deep in tunnels over 400 meters underground, according to
00:56the company Poziva.
00:57But geologic disposal of nuclear waste is still fraught with uncertainties.
01:02There are still risks. So we have had Chernobyl, we have had Fukushima and obviously the nuclear waste.
01:12We are perhaps somewhere close to a solution for that. Nobody else in the world is anywhere near in solving
01:22this problem.
01:23There is currently no permanent underground disposal facility for commercial nuclear waste operational anywhere in the world.
01:31There is currently no instant.
01:32Exactly.
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