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  • 20.03.2013
US DOE – Management and Disposal of Used Nuclear-Fuel and High-level Radioactive Waste
The Strategy published by US DOE in January 2013 presents the Administration’s response to the BRC report and serves as a statement of Administration policy regarding the importance of addressing...   more
  • 10.01.2013
Construction licence application for a final repository submitted in Finland
On 28th December 2012, the Finnish waste management organisation Posiva Oy submitted a construction licence application for a geological repository for high-level waste (spent fuel) to the government.   more

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  • 11.04.2013
Safe closure of deep geological repositories
The EU Commission Euratom has initiated a technology development project for testing plugging and sealing systems for geological disposal facilities for radioactive waste...   more
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About Nagra

 

 

Nagra stands for «National Cooperative for the Disposal of Radioactive Waste».

 

The Nuclear Energy Act states that the waste producers are responsible for the safe management of their radioactive waste. In 1972, the operators of the nuclear power plants and the Swiss Confederation (responsible for radioactive waste from medicine, industry and research) set up Nagra to perform this task. Nagra has a clear mandate: radioactive waste arising in Switzerland has to be disposed of in a way that ensures the long-term protection of man and the environment.


The members of the Nagra Cooperative are:
  • Swiss Confederation (represented by the Department of Home Affairs)
  • BKW FMB Energie AG, Bern (Mühleberg NPP)
  • Kernkraftwerk Gösgen-Däniken AG, Däniken (Gösgen NPP)
  • Kernkraftwerk Leibstadt AG, Leibstadt (Leibstadt NPP)
  • Axpo AG, Baden (Beznau I and II NPPs)
  • Alpiq Suisse SA, Lausanne 
  • Zwilag Zwischenlager Würenlingen AG, Würenlingen