Experience of Sweden and Finland in Geological Repository of Nuclear Spent Fuel

Experience of Sweden and Finland in Geological Repository of Nuclear Spent Fuel

Sweden and Finland are the countries with outstanding performance in the area of implementing high safety standards of utilizing geologic repositories of nuclear spent fuel. These countries have over thirty years of experience in the area of elaborating the safety technologies, safety standards, their implementations, and constant upgrading. The countries have both come up with the policy requiring utilizing a once-through fuel cycle and disposing it in dry or wet storage afterwards as the remarkable progress in the given area (Kollar 39).

Sweden and Finland are partners in the area of nuclear waste disposal. They work together to develop the same strategy of spent fuel conservation and have already achieved outstanding results (Okko and Hack 5). Currently, both Sweden and Finland use cast iron enforced copper canisters to encapsulate the used fuel. In Sweden, there is no specific regulation requiring using only one repository site (Kollar 39). In Finland, there are adopted regulations controlling that the used fuels are stored in the only repository site.