Sweden’s Government Approves Construction of Spent Nuclear Fuel Repository
Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2022 05:14:00 +0000
Sweden’s government in late January gave radioactive waste management company Svensk Kärnbränslehantering AB (SKB) the green light to proceed with a deep geological repository (DGR) for spent nuclear fuel (SNF) at a site near Vattenfall’s 3.2-GW Forsmark nuclear power plant. The milestone, which wraps up a planning process that has taken more than 40 years, makes Sweden only the second country, after Finland, to take active steps on building a permanent SNF repository.
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