Swedish Nuclear Waste Repository Could Begin Construction in 2016

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Swedish Nuclear Waste Repository Could Begin Construction in 2016

Written by Randy Post

Tuesday, 23 June 2009 22:31

ENR reports that a nuclear waste repository for spent nuclear fuel in Sweden could begin construction as early as 2016. The facility would consist of 50km of tunnels in granite bedrock up to 500-m deep. The proposed site is approximately 75-km north of Stockholm. The projected cost of the facility is $2.5 billion to $3.2 billion (US$ I presume). The Swedes would be chasing the Finns who might be the first country to have a permanent underground nuclear waste repository for spent nuclear fuel. (Illustration by BBC of Finland's proposed repository)