The latest Finnish invention is a plasma burning sub-atmos chamber for the safe and controlled disposal of radioactive resin waste used in the primary circuits of the reactor process (ion exchange)

The ash that is produced is stable and can be mixed with concrete for safe storage.

That is all I know, (or understand) except that VTT - the Finnish Technical Research Centre is building a half scale industrial pilot.

I certainly feel more secure living in a country where 70% or more of CEOs have engineering degrees, and the highest per capita investment in R&D in the world.

Strangely enough, Finnish politicians are 95% 'ordinary people'. By that I mean that you don't need to be rich to enter parliament, you just need the motivation. They get paid a very good government salary - too good perhaps, but rather that than the corruption that one sees in politics in other Western countries. An old friend of mine, a jazz drummer, is now an MP. And you can meet politicians in the street, in bars, in the shops - the foreign minister shops at my local supermarket on his way to his summer cottage. I've seen him carrying his own shopping out to his car - not a guard in sight. (Not that I'm an expert in spotting them)

You can't be me, I'm taken