Olkiluoto VLJ repository
Olkiluoto VLJ repository is a repository facility operated by Teollisuuden Voima in Finland. Its capacity is not publicly disclosed.
Low and intermediate level waste about 100 metres down in granite beside the Olkiluoto reactors, operating since 1992. Finland has been disposing of waste underground for more than thirty years, which is part of why Onkalo on the same site was less controversial than a first repository would be anywhere else.
Facility
| Stage | Geological disposal |
|---|---|
| Operator | Teollisuuden Voima |
| Country | Finland |
| Capacity | not disclosed |
| Figure applies to | - |
| Status | operating |
| Commissioned | 1992.0 |
| Coordinates | 61.2367, 21.4400 |
Position in the chain
No disclosed capacity, so its share of world repository capacity cannot be stated.
Other repository facilities
| Facility | Capacity | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Wolsong LILW Disposal Center, Gyeongju | 800,000drums | operating |
| Konrad | 303,000m³ | construction |
| Yucca Mountain | 70,000tHM total | closed |
| Asse II | 47,000m³ | closed |
| Morsleben (ERAM) | 37,000m³ | closed |
| Onkalo | not disclosed | construction |
| Forsmark spent fuel repository (KBS-3) | not disclosed | construction |
| Cigéo | not disclosed | planned |
| Canadian deep geological repository | not disclosed | planned |
| Nördlich Lägern | not disclosed | planned |
| Waste Isolation Pilot Plant | not disclosed | operating |
| SFR, Forsmark | not disclosed | operating |
| Loviisa VLJ repository | not disclosed | operating |
| Centre de l'Aube (CSA) | not disclosed | operating |
| El Cabril | not disclosed | operating |
| Low Level Waste Repository, Drigg | not disclosed | operating |
| Rokkasho LLW Disposal Center | not disclosed | operating |
| Bátaapáti National Radioactive Waste Repository | not disclosed | operating |
| Yeniseisky underground research laboratory, Krasnoyarsk | not disclosed | construction |
| Beishan underground research laboratory | not disclosed | construction |
Sources
- World Nuclear Association, Storage and Disposal of Radioactive Waste · retrieved 2026-09-06
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