A Site is Selected
Web page from SKB's website (Swedish Nuclear Fuel and Waste Management Company), announcing that it has selected Forsmark, in the municipality of Östhammar, as the site for the final repository for Sweden's spent nuclear fuel.
Web page from SKB's website (Swedish Nuclear Fuel and Waste Management Company), announcing that it has selected Forsmark, in the municipality of Östhammar, as the site for the final repository for Sweden's spent nuclear fuel.
ANDRA's report on its activities in 2008.
Posiva webpage discussing selecting the site for final disposal of spent fuel.
Tenth annual report by the U.K.'s Committee on Radioactive Waste Management discuss the events of the previous year.
The Nuclear Waste Management Organization of Canada published a newsletter in the summer of 2014 discussing the status of the process for selecting a site for disposal of the country's spent nuclear fuel, along with other items.
The Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 (the Act), established a
step-by-step process for the siting of the nation's first repository for
high-level radioactive waste and spent fuel. The Act gave the Department of
Energy (DOE) the primary responsibility for conducting this siting process.
The first step in the process laid out in the Act was the development by
the DOE, with the concurrence of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), of
general guidelines to be used by the Secretary of the DOE (the Secretary) in