Waste management - how?
Wastes
Types of radioactive waste
High-level waste
Management of spent fuel
Low- and intermediate-level waste
Volumes
Transport
Radiation and radioactive waste
Transmutation
Waste producers
Nuclear power plants
Nuclear fuel cycle
Reprocessing
Operational waste from NPPs
Decommissioning of NPPs
Medicine, industry and research
Waste management concept
Waste management programme
Why deep geological disposal?
Ethics and responsibility
Waste management options
Demonstration of disposal feasibility
Long-term safety
Retrievability
Deep geological repositories
Geological repository HLW
Geological repository LLW
Waste management today
Packaging
Interim storage
Waste inventories
Natural analogues
Natural analogues for engineered barriers
Natural analogues for glass
Natural analogues for metal
Natural analogues for clay
Natural analogues for geological barriers
Geological barriers – cristalline rock
Geological barriers – clay
Example ammonite
Example salt deposit
Natural reactors
Research
Laboratory studies
Rock laboratories
Grimsel
Geology
Experiments
Mont Terri
Geology
Experiments
Other countries
Belgium
Finland
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Spain
Sweden
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Canada
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USA
- 13.12.2011
Media Release of the Swiss Federal Department of the Environment, Traffic, Energy and Communications
Site selection process for deep geological repositories: Federal Council specifies six siting regions and initiates Stage 2 of the Sectoral Plan process
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- 13.09.2011
New Visitors Centre at the Mont Terri Rock Laboratory
Media releases
- 25.09.2009
25 year anniversary of Nagra's Grimsel Test Site
Today Nagra celebrates 25 years of the operation of the Grimsel Test Site. The
festivities will include over 100 invited guests...
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Waste management - how?
In Switzerland, we know how to manage radioactive waste and how we can construct safe geological repositories. All the key technical questions have been answered. In acknowledgement of this, the Federal Council approved the “Entsorgungsnachweis” project demonstrating the feasibility of constructing a safe repository for high-level waste in 2006.
How the site selection process will be conducted and what criteria a potential site will have to fulfil are defined in the sectoral plan for deep geological repositories. The stepwise procedure specified in the sectoral plan also allows new information and scientific developments to be taken into account at all stages of the process.
