Clab repository

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  • the CLAB repository, operated by the Swedish Nuclear Fuel and Waste Management Company "Svensk Kärnbränslehantering AB", also resides on the Simpevarp peninsula. This is a temporary storage for high-level spent nuclear fuel, called CLAB. CLAB was built in 1985 in Oskarshamn. It has a total storage capacity of 8 000 m3 of spent nuclear fuel and in 2009, it stored 5 000 m3. At CLAB the spent fuel is stored in water basins, located in an underground rock cave.