Waste management
Loviisa power plant aims to prevent waste and increase the share of recyclable waste. The annual waste accumulation is influenced, among other things, by the length of the annual outage periods of the power plant and the work carried out during these periods, in particular dismantling work.
Responsible waste management at Loviisa power plant
91%
Conventional waste
6%
Low and intermediate level waste
3%
Spent fuel
Waste management at the Loviisa power plant is comprised of two separate areas: waste management for the non-controlled area and waste management for the controlled area. All waste generated in the controlled area is treated as radioactive.
Waste generated in the controlled area is divided into three categories: Low-level waste (maintenance waste), intermediate-level waste (liquid waste), and high-level waste (spent fuel). Maintenance waste is either cleared as non-active and treated as conventional waste or disposed of in the final repository located at a depth of 110 metres in the power plant area. Also the solidified liquid waste was disposed of in the final repository.
Liquid waste is purified and released into the sea or stored and solidified in concrete and then disposed of in the final repository. Spent fuel is stored to await final disposal in Eurajoki.
Responsible management of the disposal of nuclear spent fuel in Finland
The nuclear power plant produces electricity from uranium fuel. Spent nuclear fuel is radioactive, which means that it must be isolated from living nature long enough for its radioactivity to be reduced to harmless levels. This isolation is called final disposal.
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