Sweden: More nuclear waste stored in the sea?
The Swedish Nuclear Fuel and Waste Management Company (SKB) has applied to expand its final repository for short-lived radioactive waste (SFR) outside the Town of Forsmark in central Sweden.
The company wrote in a press release that one of the reasons for the application is to dispose of waste from the closed reactors in Barsebäck, in Southern Sweden, and to prepare for future decommissioning.
The plan is for the expansion to build six new rock vaults beneath the seabed outside Forsmark, which would triple the storage capacity to approximately 171,000 cubic meters of waste.
The application, submitted to the Swedish Radiation Safety Authority and the Land and Environment Court on Friday, is 6,000 pages long.
Related stories from around the North:
Canada: Oil and gas consultations in Canada’s eastern Arctic next week, CBC News
Finland: Olkiluoto nuclear construction staff to double in 2015, Yle News
Greenland: Statoil awarded exploration licence off Greenland, Eye on the Arctic
Norway: Oil, Industry and Arctic Sustainability, Deutsche Welle’s Ice-Blog
Russia: Seismic mapping of Russian Arctic will continue — Rosneft, Barents Observer
Sweden: Swedish NGO delivers anti-Fennovoima petition to Finland, Radio Sweden
United States: Report says Chukchi Sea drilling runs heightened risk of large spill, Alaska Public Radio Network
