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Extending the SFR Repository in Order to Handle Decommissioning Waste From the Swedish NPPs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 February 2011

Fredrik Vahlund  and
Anna Gordon
Fredrik Vahlund
Affiliation:
Swedish Nuclear Fuel and Waste Management Co.Box 250, SE-101 24 Stockholm, Sweden
Anna Gordon
Affiliation:
Swedish Nuclear Fuel and Waste Management Co.Box 250, SE-101 24 Stockholm, Sweden
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Abstract

Low- and intermediate-level operational waste from the Swedish nuclear power plants is stored in the SFR repository. The facility is located in the bedrock at a depth of approximately 50 m and has been in operation for 20 years. According to present plans, all Swedish nuclear power plants will have been decommissioned by the end of the 2040s. The decommissioning phase will start by initially decommission the two Barseback reactors that have been non-operational since 1999 and 2005. In order to host the decommissioning waste, the storage volume of the SFR repository must be extended with approximately 140,000 m3. To do this, a project is ongoing with the objective of submitting an application to extend SFR by 2013 and the superior aim of having the facility in operation year 2020.

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Research Article
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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 1193: Scientific Basis for Nuclear Waste Management XXXIII , 2009 , 655
Copyright
Copyright © Materials Research Society 2009

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