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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.
14th International Topical Meeting on Nuclear Applications of Accelerators
Technical Session
Thursday, December 2, 2021|1:00–2:45PM EST |Jefferson
Session Chair:
Valeriia Starovoitova (IAEA)
Session Organizer:
Carol Johnstone
Student Assistant:
Matthew Hageman
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Cyclotron production of Meitner-Auger emitters for targeted radiation therapy in a liquid target
1:05–1:25PM EST
Lucas Mues genannt Koers (TRIUMF), Elena Kurakina (TRIUMF), Valery Radchenko (TRIUMF), Elisabeth Paulßen (FH Aachen), Cornelia Hoehr (TRIUMF)
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Synthesis of Hg-197m/g labeled gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) for Meitner-Auger electron (MAE) radiation therapy of glioblastoma multiforme (GBM)
1:25–1:45PM EST
Philipp Droop (TRIUMF), Valery Radchenko (TRUMF), Shaohuang Chen (TRIUMF), Raymond Reilly (University of Toronto), Elisabeth Paulßen (FH Aachen), Cornelia Hoehr (TRIUMF)
A High-Throughput Hot Surface Ion Source for Electromagnetic Radioisotope Separation
1:45–2:05PM EST
Peter Norgard (Univ. Missouri ), Bradley D. Jeffries (Univ. Missouri), Barry Higgins (Univ. Missouri), John M. Gahl (Univ. Missouri), J. David Robertson (Univ. Missouri)
Ionization Efficiency Measurement and Optimization of a Thermal Ion Source for Radioisotope Electromagnetic Separation
2:05–2:25PM EST
B. Jeffries (Univ. Missouri), P. Norgard (Univ. Missouri), B. Higgins (Univ. Missouri), J. Gahl (Univ. Missouri)
Search for New Isotope Production Pathways
2:25–2:45PM EST
Loida Rosado Del Rio (University of Puerto Rico), Andrew Hutton (Jefferson Lab)