Sweden has begun constructing a nuclear waste repository to store radioactive waste deep underground near the Forsmark nuclear power plant. Holes will be drilled into solid rock to accommodate ...

Swedish radioactive waste management company Svensk Kärnbränslehantering (SKB) has begun excavation works to extend its Final ...

Sweden has initiated the construction of a repository for the long-term storage of spent nuclear fuel in Söderviken, close to the Forsmark nuclear power plant. The Swedish Nuclear Fuel and Waste ...

A new nuclear waste shelter in Sweden, among the first in the world of its kind, follows political ambitions and a sudden ...

Experts believe the giant nuclear repository is the only safe way to dispose of Sweden's nuclear waste, and say it will be ...

The repository's design aims to provide protection for 100,000 years and withstand geological changes, climate-related ...

Blasting work 45 metres below ground has begun, marking the start of the expansion of Sweden's existing SFR final repository ...

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FORSMARK, Sweden, Jan 15 (Reuters ... It will have room to hold all the waste produced by Sweden's nuclear power plants. However, it will not hold fuel from future reactors.

For decades, nuclear energy has been relegated to the sidelines of the global debate on climate change and clean energy. Now, ...

The Forsmark facility will be the second largest in the world - It will have 60 kilometres of tunnels buried 500 metres below ...