Handling and final disposal of nuclear waste: Hard Rock Laboratory

In an international perspective, Sweden has come a long way in the development of safe and accepted systems for the management and disposal of radioactive waste. <br/><br/>A complete system for sea transport of spent nuclear fuel from the twelve Swedish nuclear reactors has been in operation since 1982. The spent nuclear fuel will be stored in CLAB for a period of about 40 years up until final disposal. The facility has been in operation since 1985. A final repository for low- and intermediate-level short-lived waste, SFR, has been in operation since April 1988. <br/><br/>The Swedish waste system is almost complete. The facilities that still remain to be built and sited are a final repository for the long-lived waste, consisting mainly of the spent nuclear fuel, and an encapsulation plant for the spent fuel.<br/>