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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
Wednesday, September 28, 2022|1:15–3:20PM PDT|Seaport
Session Chair:
Tucker Mclannahan (ORNL)
Alternate Chair:
Irina I. Popova (ORNL)
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The AARE Package Building on CINDER2008 for Radionuclide Inventory Assessments of Accelerator Environments
1:15–1:40PM PDT
Franz X. Gallmeier (ORNL), Erik B. Iverson (ORNL), Wei Lu (ORNL), Irina I. Popova (ORNL), Igor Remec (ORNL), Bradley J. Micklich (ANL), Thomas M. Miller (ORNL), Michael J. Mocko (LANL), Charles Kelsey (LANL), Tucker C. McClanahan (ORNL), Michael Wohlmuther (European Spallation Source)
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Comparison of CINDER90 and CINDER2008 for Second Target Station Target Activation
1:40–2:05PM PDT
Tucker C. McClanahan (ORNL), Igor Remec (ORNL)
Design of a Neutron Beamline Shield Plug and Residual Dose Rate Analysis at Second Target Station
2:05–2:30PM PDT
Kumar Mohindroo (ORNL), Thomas Miller (ORNL)
Activation Analysis in Preparation for a Tungsten Irradiation Experiment at LANSCE
2:30–2:55PM PDT
Kristel Ghoos (ORNL), Tucker McClanahan (ORNL), Lukas Zavorka (ORNL), Igor Remec (ORNL)
Estimation of Gas Bremsstrahlung from 3-GeV Synchrotron Rings Based on the Residual Gas Compositions
2:55–3:20PM PDT
Akihiro Takeuchi (National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology), Masayuki Hagiwara (National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology), Hiroki Matsuda (National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology), Toshiro Itoga (Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute), Hiroyuki Konishi (National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology)
