Why does Finland insist on using nuclear power? ☢️ engineering
Many countries in Europe are moving away from nuclear power. At the turn of the new year,of its six functional nuclear power plants as it turns to renewable forms of energy in the long term. France and Belgium have also announced similar plans to move away from nuclear power, but Finland seems to be going the other way, as it is currently building another nuclear power plant. Finland is a relatively small country by size and most of its 5.
The country had begun the process of identifying potential sites for long-term storage of its nuclear wastes, and in the year 2000 an island settled on Olkiluoto, off the western coast of the country, was selected. The nearby town of Eurajoki is no stranger to nuclear power with almost everyone in the town having a friend or a relative who has worked in one of the two nuclear power plants located nearby. A third is on the way to becoming functional.
Nearby are two earthquake faults that might become active after the next ice age but since the facility is located precisely between them, it is expected to remain inert to the seismic activity. often spend decades cooling down in an interim water pool but for them to be stored, the water will be suctioned off by robots in a stainless steel room, covered by 4.25 feet thick concrete walls,The rods will then be put into cast-iron canisters, which will be placed in a copper canister with inert gas, argon, filled between them to create a non-reactive atmosphere.
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