Final repository for short-lived radioactive waste

The final repository for short-lived radioactive waste (SFR) in Forsmark, Sweden, is a facility for the storage of low and intermediate level radioactive waste produced by all of Sweden's nuclear power plants, and has been active since April 1988.^[1]

SFR has four separate rock vaults and one silo; reaching a capacity to store 60,000m³ of radioactive waste. SFR currently receives approximately 600 m³ of waste per year.^[2]

References

^ Skogberg, M. & Ingvarsson, I. "Operational experience from SFR - Final repository for low- and intermediate level waste in Sweden". Available at: http://www.euronuclear.org/events/topseal/transactions/Paper-Session-III-Skogsberg.pdf Last accessed [26/5/2013]
^ "Final repository for short-lived radioactive waste - SKB". Skb.se. Archived from the original on 2013-10-27. Retrieved 2013-08-16.

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[1] Skogberg, M. & Ingvarsson, I. "Operational experience from SFR - Final repository for low- and intermediate level waste in Sweden". Available at: http://www.euronuclear.org/events/topseal/transactions/Paper-Session-III-Skogsberg.pdf Last accessed [26/5/2013]

[2] "Final repository for short-lived radioactive waste - SKB". Skb.se. Archived from the original on 2013-10-27. Retrieved 2013-08-16.

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