Finland grants operating license to world's first nuclear waste repository

Finland has become the first country to receive an operating license for a permanent spent nuclear fuel repository designed to isolate waste for 100,000 years. The Onkalo facility near Olkiluoto is the world's first operating geological disposal site of this kind.

• Repository designed to isolate waste for 100,000 years
• Finland is the first country to license a permanent repository
• Facility sits next to the Olkiluoto nuclear plant