Saanio & Riekkola Oy

Saanio & Riekkola is a multi-discipline engineering consultancy from Finland specialised in nuclear waste management services and underground structure design. With over 30 years' experience in nuclear waste disposal, Saanio & Riekkola provides a complete range of solutions for nuclear waste management as well as specific research and engineering design services for nuclear waste disposal. We are committed to serving clients around the world in all stages of their nuclear waste projects; from preliminary cost estimations and conceptual design, to construction supervision and monitoring, by providing state-of-the-art design solutions, world leading research expertise and highly qualified and motivated professionals.

VTT

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd is the biggest multi-technological applied research organisation in Northern Europe with over 2600 employees. In nuclear energy VTT covers both nuclear reactor safety and nuclear waste safety with nuclear fuel studies being in the interface. VTT provides technical support to the Finnish nuclear safety authority STUK in the licensing review of the Finnish nuclear power plants including Olkiluoto 3 EPR. The Research Centre has approximately 100 experts serving the field of nuclear waste management, along with modern laboratory facilities, ranging from nanoscale studies through full-scale structural mock-ups . VTT has been the key technical support organisation for over 30 years to the Posiva Oy in performance of analytical and experimental research to support the preparation of the construction license application for underground spent fuel repository to Finland.