nuclear waste cleaning Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Mon, 16 Nov 2015 16:48:14 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Finland’s Nuclear Waste Problem Will Be Buried at Olkiluoto https://www.greenoptimistic.com/finland-nuclear-waste-olkiluoto/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/finland-nuclear-waste-olkiluoto/#comments Sun, 15 Nov 2015 20:47:20 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=57628 Posiva Ltd has been an expert in the business of Nuclear Waste final disposal since 1995 and they have a lot of know-how when it comes to working with a waste that most people would rather not see in their backyard. The timeline for this project has been on the drawing board for many years, […]

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