Associated Press100%
Finland's plan to bury spent nuclear waste not without risk to future generations 92%
4/9/2026, 12:01:17 PM
BS Summary: This video contains 19 faulty reasoning types, including Overconfidence Bias, Confirmation Bias, and Negativity Bias, with Appeal to Authority as the most egregious example at 46.1% saturation with 71 hits. Analysis detected 526 faulty-reasoning hits from 154 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 87.7% and a BS Rank of 92% (1,385 of 16,813 videos). This video is worse (more manipulative) than 91.80% of the video peer group.
I'm here on the west coast of Finland where a world first project to store nuclear waste far under the ground is nearing completion.
Plans for En Carlo were first conceived in the 1980s and now four decades later, operators say construction is complete and they could begin storing nuclear waste later this year.
Spent nuclear fuel will be filled into copper canisters, then buried hundreds of meters below the surface among a maze of underground tunnels.
Geologists here say the bedrock means nuclear waste can be stored safely for at least 100,000 years.
In Finland, nuclear energy makes up about 40% of the country's energy mix.
And despite Chernobyl and more recently Fukushima disasters, there's still high public support for it.
There's hundreds of thousands of tons of spent nuclear fuel stored up in containers.
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