Sweden recently began constructing a final storage facility for its spent nuclear fuel. The facility will safely store highly radioactive waste for an extended period, specifically 100,000 years. The ...

Sweden has begun constructing a nuclear waste repository to store radioactive waste deep underground near the Forsmark nuclear power plant. Holes will be drilled into solid rock to accommodate ...

The repository's design aims to provide protection for 100,000 years and withstand geological changes, climate-related ...

A hazardous energy source will be stored in a 160,000-year-old bunker that Sweden has opened. It is permanent, but is it safe ...

FORSMARK, Sweden, Jan 15 (Reuters) - Sweden started building a final storage facility for spent nuclear fuel on Wednesday, only the second such site in the world, where highly radioactive waste ...

Ground has been broken, starting the construction of the Swedish Spent Fuel Repository in Forsmark, Östhammar Municipality.

Swedish radioactive waste management company Svensk Kärnbränslehantering (SKB) has begun excavation works to extend its Final ...

Experts believe the giant nuclear repository is the only safe way to dispose of Sweden's nuclear waste, and say it will be ...

The Swedish government has announced the beginning of construction of a storage facility for spent nuclear fuel, ...

A new nuclear waste shelter in Sweden, among the first in the world of its kind, follows political ambitions and a sudden ...

The Forsmark facility will be the second largest in the world - It will have 60 kilometres of tunnels buried 500 metres below ...