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Posiva begins drilling disposal holes at Finland’s Onkalo repository
Last week the Finnish nuclear waste management company Posiva began drilling holes for final disposal at the Onkalo deep geological repository, near the Olkiluoto nuclear power plant in western Finland. The company’s German-made Deposition Hole Boring Machine (DHBM) took about 10 hours to drill the first hole, with a depth of 8.4 meters and a diameter of 1.75 meters, into the 1.9-billion-year-old bedrock. This is the first deposition hole intended for an iron-copper canister containing spent nuclear fuel—though test holes have been drilled at the site since 2022.
The Onkalo repository received a favorable safety assessment from the Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority of Finland earlier in August.
Technical Session|Sponsored by THD
Monday, June 8, 2020|3:30–5:15PM EDT|3
Session Chair:
Wade R. Marcum
Alternate Chair:
Seung Jun Kim
Session Organizer:
Jun Fang (ANL)
Track Organizer:
Igor Bolotnov (NCSU)
Staff Producer:
Jessica Vazquez (American Nuclear Society)
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Improvement of Advanced Nuclear Reactor Safety Analysis Codes Using CFD
Rohan Biwalkar (Pittsburgh Technical LLC), Sola Talabi (Pittsburgh Technical LLC), Kenneth Redus (Redus and Associates LLC)
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CFD Modeling of Hot-Channel for Potential High-Power Configuration of Missouri S&T Reactor
Thaqal Alhuzaymi (King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology), Ayodeji B. Alajo (Missouri Univ. Science and Technology), Joshua Schlegel (Missouri Univ. Science and Technology)
Study on Selecting Conservative Axial Power Shape for DNBR Design Limit
Shane Park (KEPCO Nuclear Fuel)
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Theoretical Exploration of Heat Transfer Characteristics of Liquid Metals
Yaou Shen (Nuclear Power Institute of China), Shinian Peng (Nuclear Power Institute of China), Mingyu Yan (Nuclear Power Institute of China), Yu Zhang (Nuclear Power Institute of China), Jian Deng (Nuclear Power Institute of China)
