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Finland: Nuclear waste disposal facility wanted

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Kiyo Dörrer
August 14, 2023

The world's first nuclear waste repository is being built off Finland's west coast on the island of Olkiluoto. Highly radioactive waste will soon be buried deep underground there.

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