Nuclear waste
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UNDER CONSTRUCTION
Repositories by country
Europe
Switzerland
Netherlands
- COVRA, Centrale Organisatie Voor Radioactief Afval, Vlissingen
Finland
- Onkalo[1] (Finland)
- final repository for HAW from Olkiluoto and Loviisa on the Olkiluoto NPP site
- Olkiluoto VLJ Repository[2] (Finland)
- final repository for LMAW at the Olkiluoto NPP site
- final repository at the Loviisa NPP site[3]
- for LMAW, and possible also for radioactive waste from decommissioning Loviisa and Olkiluoto NPP
Sweden
- final disposal site for LMAW at the Oskarshamn NPP site
- Labority for incapsulation[4]
- experimental incapsulation plant for nuclear waste on Oskarshamn NPP site
- Äspölaboratoriet[4]
- near Figeholm, north of Oskarshamn
- 500 m deep research site for nuclear fuel final repository
- SFR Repository[5]
- final repository for LMAW from Swedish reactors, located on the Forsmark NPP site. Located in the bedrock under the Baltic Sea.
- Forsmark HAW repository
- proposed site for final disposal of HAW (spent fuel), to be built next to the SFR Repository, but not connected with it.[6]
- Clab repository[7]
- central Swedish interim repository for spent fuel elements (HAW) on the Oskarshamn NPP site
Norway
none
Estonia
- Estonian Repository
- In Estonia, near the town of Sillamäe on the shore of the Gulf of Finland there is a large waste depository.[8] In Estonia, near the town of Sillamäe on the shore of the Gulf of Finland there is a large (50 hectares) waste depository. The total radioactive waste amount there is 12 million tons and of that amount about half originates from the enrichment of uranium. An international project for the restoration of the area was completed in 2008.[9]
Latvia
- Radons (Latvia) - (nearly done)
- closed repository? No
Lithuania
- Lithuanian repositories (two sites) - (promised by Li)
Belarus
none
Poland
Germany
- Asse II - collapsed final repository
- Morsleben - collapsed final repository
- Schacht Konrad - licensed final repository
- Gorleben - proposed final repository
- ZLN Lubmin[10] - temporary repository
- interim storage at the Greifswald NPP site
Denmark
- Danish final disposal attempts[11] (Denmark)
France
- Meuse Laboratory
United Kingdom
Nuclear Decommissioning Authority / Nirex research and development into the disposal of radioactive waste
- Sellafield
- Drigg, West Cumbria, England
America
USA
- Carlsbad, New Mexico
- Maxey Flat, Kentucky
- Basalt Waste Isolation Project, Washington
- Ontario Power Generation's Deep Geologic Repository
- Yucca, Nevada
- Site A/Plot M Disposal Site, Red Gate Woods,
Asia
Japan
Russia
Mayak (see also Kyshtym Disaster) at Techa river
China
Jordan
Iran
Syria
South Korea
Taiwan
- Lanyu, Orchid Island
Africa
- Vaalputs, South Africa
See also
References
- ↑ http://www.contratom.de/2.0/index.php?mod=standort&id=508 - December 8, 2010
- ↑ http://www.contratom.de/2.0/index.php?mod=standort&id=507 - December 8, 2010
- ↑ http://www.contratom.de/2.0/index.php?mod=standort&id=503 - December 8, 2010
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 http://www.tekniskamuseet.se/1/867.html as at July 17, 2013
- ↑ http://www.contratom.de/2.0/index.php?mod=standort&id=514 - December 8, 2010
- ↑ https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Forsmark_Nuclear_Power_Plant#Waste_disposal (no primary source given) - February 21, 2011
- ↑ http://www.contratom.de/2.0/index.php?mod=standort&id=511 - December 8, 2010
- ↑ http://www.stuk.fi/ydinturvallisuus/ydinjatteet/ydinjatteet_maailmalla/en_GB/maailmalla/ - December 11, 2010
- ↑ http://www.stuk.fi/ydinturvallisuus/ydinjatteet/ydinjatteet_maailmalla/en_GB/lahialueet/ - December 11, 2010
- ↑ http://www.contratom.de/2.0/index.php?mod=standort&id=169 - December 8, 2010
- ↑ http://www.contratom.de/2011/05/07/danemark-plant-atommullendlager-nahe-fehmarn/ as at May 7, 2011