Identifying remaining socio-technical challenges at the national level: Slovenia

The use of nuclear energy has a strong tradition in Slovenia. In 1949 the Institute Josef Stefan was founded, devoted to research in physics, with great emphasis on nuclear physics. A few years later (1966) the research nuclear reactor TRIGA started to work in the vicinity of capital city Ljubljana, to support its research. Slovenia is having one NPP (in coownership with Croatia) located in Kr_ko municipality, in operation since 1983, and one Central interim storage (82 m3 stored waste) for LILW from medicine, industry and research at the same site as research reactor, in operation from 1986. There are plans to build second NPP at the same location, but the final decision has not been made yet.