Olkiluoto VLJ Repository
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provided by an exhibition presented at the international anti-nuclear conference in Vienna on May 31, 2013
- situated at the Olkiluoto site; construction started in 1988; final disposal started in 1992, with the first transfer of waste from the Olkiluoto NPP on May 8, 1992[1]
- 20.8.1998: The Council of State granted a new operation licence for (...) the low and medium-level waste interim storages[1]
- final repository for so-called "operating waste" (VLJ) - LMAW
- waste drums in concrete boxes
The silos are at the depth of 60-100 meters.
Multiple barriers:
- solidified waste
- concrete box
- concrete silo
- filling material
- shotcreted wall
- bedrock
Consists of:
- shaft - height 60 m
- transport tunnel
- crane hall:
- length 65.0 m
- width 23.4 m
- height 10.8 m
- volume 14,900 m³
- intermediate level waste silo:
- diameter 23.6 m
- height 34.5 m
- inside dimensions of the reinforced concrete silo:
- diameter 19.9 m
- height 32.3 m
- volume 15,100 m³
- low level waste silo:
- diameter 23.6 m
- height 33.6 m
- volume 14,700 m³
