Swedish Nuclear Fuel and Waste Management Company (SKB) submitted a construction permit application to Swedish authorities this month for a final disposal facility for nuclear waste.
The request was to build an encapsulation facility at Oskarshamn in southern Sweden and an underground repository at Osthammar, some 450km to the north. Waste would be transported to the latter by sea once encapsulation is completed.
Posiva said, “The application is based on 30 years of research and development on the final disposal of spent nuclear fuel in metal canisters deep in the bedrock (the KBS-3 method). Posiva has adopted the same final disposal solution and cooperates closely with SKB in various areas of final disposal technology.”
More information on this will be available at WTC Helsinki and in chapter eight of the Finnish Tunnelling Association’s upcoming book to be released at the same.
