Germany has formally launched its search for a permanent high-level nuclear waste repository site, publishing a 444-page list of locations to be assessed by 2031 with operation of the facility from 2050.
BGE, the nation’s radioactive waste management organisation, named 90 areas around the country as possible candidates for a repository. It said in a report that the planned facility would hold high-level waste currently in interim storage at nuclear plants.
Germany, which is planning to close all commercial nuclear plants by 2022, is seeking a safe place to store 1,900 containers of high-level waste. The containers make up only 5% of the country’s radwaste but 99% of its radioactivity, according to BGE chairman Stefan Studt.
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