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424 Sweden Starts Building 100,000 Year Storage Site For Spent Nuclear Fuel

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BeauHD @ Slashdot · 01/16/2025 02:00 EDT

Sweden Starts Building 100,000 Year Storage Site For Spent Nuclear Fuel

Sweden has begun constructing a long-term storage facility for spent nuclear fuel in Forsmark, making it only the second country after Finland to build such a site. It is not expected to be completed until the 2080s, but once finished, it will securely house radioactive waste for up to 100,000 years. Reuters reports: The Forsmark final repository, about 150 kilometers north of Stockholm on Sweden's east coast, will consist of 60 km of tunnels buried 500 meters down in 1.9 billion year old bedrock. It will b

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