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Pete Ross

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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Global News Podcast
Zelensky welcomes EU's $105 billion loan for Ukraine

It's going to take some time, of course, for this to all happen.

Global News Podcast
Zelensky welcomes EU's $105 billion loan for Ukraine

But I think those who had those concerns are going to say, well, actually, we haven't really seen any evidence that anything's changed as of yet.

Global News Podcast
Zelensky welcomes EU's $105 billion loan for Ukraine

And TikTok, of course, would say that it had already been fragmenting US user data and keeping it separate precisely to try to allay these fears.

Global News Podcast
Zelensky welcomes EU's $105 billion loan for Ukraine

So,

Global News Podcast
Zelensky welcomes EU's $105 billion loan for Ukraine

I think in terms of is it the silver bullet?

Global News Podcast
Zelensky welcomes EU's $105 billion loan for Ukraine

Is TikTok suddenly forgiven?

Global News Podcast
Zelensky welcomes EU's $105 billion loan for Ukraine

We'll have to wait and see.

Global News Podcast
Zelensky welcomes EU's $105 billion loan for Ukraine

Zoe Clyman talking to Alex Ritson.

Global News Podcast
Zelensky welcomes EU's $105 billion loan for Ukraine

How do you safely dispose of radioactive nuclear waste?

Global News Podcast
Zelensky welcomes EU's $105 billion loan for Ukraine

That's the tough environmental problem facing many countries looking to scale up nuclear power operations.

Global News Podcast
Zelensky welcomes EU's $105 billion loan for Ukraine

Finland is already further ahead than most.

Global News Podcast
Zelensky welcomes EU's $105 billion loan for Ukraine

Last year it became the first country in the world to finish a deep underground facility, where spent nuclear fuel will be locked away for thousands of years.

Global News Podcast
Zelensky welcomes EU's $105 billion loan for Ukraine

Our science correspondent Victoria Gill has been to the site to discover how the process works.

Global News Podcast
Zelensky welcomes EU's $105 billion loan for Ukraine

As we drive northwest from Helsinki, what strikes me about the scenery, apart from lots of trees, is dense grey rock.

Global News Podcast
Zelensky welcomes EU's $105 billion loan for Ukraine

Some of the main road is cut through the granite.

Global News Podcast
Zelensky welcomes EU's $105 billion loan for Ukraine

It's beneath that dense bedrock that some of the most hazardous material produced by humanity, highly radioactive spent nuclear fuel, will be buried in a place called Onkolo, which is where we're headed.

Global News Podcast
Zelensky welcomes EU's $105 billion loan for Ukraine

Disposal holes are drilled in the tunnels using a purpose-built boring machine.

Global News Podcast
Zelensky welcomes EU's $105 billion loan for Ukraine

At ground level, above the tunnels, is a visitor's centre with an exhibition explaining the whole containment and permanent disposal process.

Global News Podcast
Zelensky welcomes EU's $105 billion loan for Ukraine

In that time when we started, we were not the first in the world.

Global News Podcast
Zelensky welcomes EU's $105 billion loan for Ukraine

Sana Mostanen is a geologist and project manager for POSIVA, the company that operates Onkolo.