{"id":312860,"date":"2025-11-13T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/noticias\/finland-to-convert-nuclear-waste-into-useful-energy\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T13:48:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T17:48:14","slug":"finland-to-convert-nuclear-waste-into-useful-energy","status":"publish","type":"noticias","link":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/news\/finland-to-convert-nuclear-waste-into-useful-energy\/","title":{"rendered":"Finland to convert nuclear waste into useful energy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In an unprecedented step in nuclear waste management, the company <strong>Teollisuuden Voima Oyj (TVO)<\/strong> has entered into a partnership with <strong>Rauma Biovoima<\/strong> to transform <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/articulo\/instrumentation-in-industrial-maintenance\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">maintenance materials from the Olkilu<\/a><\/strong> from the Olkiluoto power plants into usable energy. The move marks a significant change in the treatment of this type of waste in Finland. <\/p>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What exactly are they doing?<\/h2>\n\n<p>At nuclear power plants, in addition to spent nuclear fuel, other wastes are generated during maintenance, such as coveralls <strong>, gloves or protective plastics<\/strong>, which are used in controlled areas. These wastes are monitored and determined to be <strong>&#8220;exempt from supervision&#8221; or &#8220;exempt from control&#8221;<\/strong>, which means that their radioactivity levels are so low that they are legally <strong>no longer considered <a href=\"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/articulo\/radioactive-waste-management-solutions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">radioactive waste<\/a><\/strong> and can be treated as normal waste. <\/p>\n\n<p>Before, these same wastes, even if they were not radioactive, <strong>were simply packed and sent to a landfill<\/strong>, which had an economic cost and an environmental cost. Now, instead of burying it, it will be sorted and sent to the <strong>Rauma Biovoima plant<\/strong>, where it will be burned along with other recycled fuels. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/news\/u-s-refines-technology-to-recycle-used-nuclear-fuel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">recycled fuels<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What is the impact of this news for Finland?<\/h2>\n\n<p>This is the first time in Finland that this has been done with waste from a nuclear power plant. Reusing this waste is cheaper than the previous landfill disposal process and is a way of saving natural resources. <\/p>\n\n<p>The process has been reviewed and <strong>approved by the Finnish nuclear safety authority (STUK)<\/strong> and the <strong>first pilot batch is scheduled for<\/strong> transport <strong>in November<\/strong>, with a volume of approximately ten cubic meters. According to TVO estimates, between <strong>30 and 80 cubic meters of waste<\/strong> could be treated annually using this new method. <\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvo.fi\/ajankohtaista\/tiedotteetporssitiedotteet\/2025\/teollisuudenvoimanjaraumanbiovoimanyhteistyohuoltojatteenkasittelyssasaastaasekaeurojaettaluontoa.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Teollisuuden Voima<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time, maintenance nuclear waste will be treated as fuel in a Finnish cogeneration plant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10019,"featured_media":312699,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categoria_noticias":[13026,13044],"etiqueta_noticias":[],"class_list":["post-312860","noticias","type-noticias","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","categoria_noticias-energy","categoria_noticias-new-energies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/noticias\/312860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/noticias"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/noticias"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10019"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/noticias\/312860\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"categoria_noticias","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categoria_noticias?post=312860"},{"taxonomy":"etiqueta_noticias","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inspenet.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/etiqueta_noticias?post=312860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}