Final disposal facilities and plans in different countries
Short-lived low and intermediate level waste
Loviisa NPP | Rock cavern | 1998 - |
Sweden | Forsmark yvl | Rock cavern | 1988 - |
Norway | Himdalen | Rock cavern | 1998 - |
Germany | Asse | Salt mine | 1967 - 1978 |
Morsleben | Rock cavern | 1981 - 1999 |
France | Centre de la Manche | Shallow land burial | 1969 - 1994 |
Centre de l’Aube | Near-surface concrete vaults | 1992 - |
Great Britain | Drigg | Maahanhautaus | 1959 - |
Spain | El Cabril | Near-surface concrete vaults | 1992 - |
| The Czech Republic | Dukovany | Near-surface concrete vaults | 1995 - |
| Slovakia | Mohovce | Near-surface concrete vaults | 2000 - |
Japan | Rokkasho | Near-surface concrete vaults | 1992 - |
USA | Beatty, Nevada | Shallow land burial | 1962 - 1992 |
Barnwell, South-Carolina | Shallow land burial | 1971 - |
Hanford, Washington | Shallow land burial | 1965 - |
Long-lived low and intermediate level waste
USA | Carlsbad, New Mexico | Deep repository in salt formation | 1998 |
High level waste
Sweden | snf. | Forsmark/ granite formation | 2023 |
Germany | snf and hlw | Open | 2030 |
Great Britain | hlw | Open | not before 2040 |
France | hlw | Open / clay or granite formation | 2020 |
Japan | hlw | Open / granite or sediment formation | 2030 - 2035 |
Canada | snf. | Open / granite formation | 2025 |
USA | snf and hlw | Yucca Mountain / volcanic tuff formation | not before 2017 |
snf = spent nuclear fuel
hlw = high-level reprocessing waste
