That’s ‘More nuclear waste for our children’ in Finnish and is the message Greenpeace Finland campaigners took to the construction site of the OL3 nuclear reactor at Olkiluoto in Finland.
In the light of the Greenpeace action, the Finnish nuclear safety authority STUK announced that security measures at the OL3 site are inadequate. If Greenpeace can get there, who else? Just one more reason why nuclear power can’t be trusted.
The two existing reactors in Olkiluoto produce 40 tons of extremely radioactive nuclear waste. Fifteen hundred tons, or 250 truckloads, of the material is in intermediate storage in Olkiluoto. The Olkiluoto 3 reactor, if completed, would produce another 25 tons per year of waste that is dramatically more radioactive than that from existing reactors. The new reactor is designed to burn uranium more intensely and, as a consequence, the resulting nuclear waste contains up to seven times more easily released, extremely toxic substances.
A permanent nuclear waste dumpsite is planned underground in Olkiluoto for all high-level nuclear waste produced in Finnish nuclear reactors. The plan is to bury the waste on the Olkiluoto island, on the coast of the Baltic sea and partially directly under the sea. Once the waste containment fails, radioactive contamination would spread into the Baltic sea in 50-100 years. The planned nuclear waste dumpsite would be an environmental crime, not a solution to nuclear waste.
– from greenpeace.org