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November 15–18, 2026
Phoenix, AZ|Arizona Grand Resort & Spa
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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
Tuesday, September 27, 2022|10:00AM–12:05PM PDT|Harbor
Session Chair:
Hideo Hirayama (High Energy Accelerator Research Organization, KEK)
Alternate Chair:
Maha Bouhadida (IRSN)
Session Organizer:
Thomas M. Miller (ORNL)
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Investigation and Analysis of the TEPCO's Fukushima Daiichi NPS Accident (March 2021)
10:00–10:25AM PDT
Masaya Yasui (Nuclear Regulatory Agency)
Presented by Kohei Iwanaga (Nuclear Regulatory Agency Japan)
Paper
Estimation of 137Cs Activity Using Pinhole Gamma Camera at Unit 2 Operation Floor in Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station
10:25–10:50AM PDT
Katsumi Hayashi (Nuclear Regulation Authority), Hideo Hirayama (High Energy Accelerator Research Organization), Kohei Iwanaga (Nuclear Regulation Authority), Kenjiro Kondo (High Energy Accelerator Research Organization), Seishiro Suzuki (Nuclear Regulation Authority)
Estimated Cs-137 Radioactivity Deposited in the Gap Between the Top and Middle Cover of the Shield Plug in Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station Unit 2
10:50–11:15AM PDT
Kohei Iwanaga (Nuclear Regulatory Agency), Hideo Hirayama (High Energy Accelerator Research Organization), Katsumi Hayashi (Nuclear Regulatory Agency), Kenjiro Kondo (Nuclear Regulatory Agency), Seishiro Suzuki (Nuclear Regulatory Agency), Zenko Yoshida (Nuclear Regulatory Agency)
Radiation Environment Around the Contaminated Water Storage Tank Including Highly Concentrated 90Sr/90Y at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station
11:15–11:40AM PDT
Hideo Hirayama (Nuclear Regulatory Agency), Kenjiro Kondo (Nuclear Regulatory Agency), Seishiro Sszuki (Nuclear Regulatory Agency), Shimpei Hamamoto (Nuclear Regulatory Agency), Kohei Iwanaga (Nuclear Regulatory Agency)
Neutron Spectra Reconstruction with an Artificial Neural Network Trained with a Large Built Dataset
11:40AM–12:05PM PDT
M. Bouhadida (IRSN), M. Brovchenko (IRSN), T. Vinchon (IRSN), W. Monange (IRSN), F. Trompier (IRSN)