10 Feb
EU countries . wishing to build a deep underground repository for nuclear waste pollution
Posted in Uncategorized on 10.02.12 by Merlyn
According to foreign news agencies reported on 20th, EU States plan to start construction within the next 15 years deep underground repository for highly radioactive nuclear waste.
reports, an expert in the United States on a joint forum for the advancement of science, a huge built deep underground nuclear waste repository by 2020 in Finland and put into operation.
the European Commission Joint Research Center researcher Roland? Schenkel said Sweden and France is completed in 2025 and . 2023 respectively underground deep repository to work with large amounts of nuclear waste.
Germany, George Mason University, Alison? McFarlane said, compared with the expensive nuclear fuel recycling techniques, building underground storage is considered to be the best way to deal with highly radioactive nuclear waste.
however, because experts have not such repository of technical safety be guaranteed, one-fifth Sweden respondents objected to their home built in the vicinity of the nuclear waste repository.
it is reported that, as of 2007, total 145 nuclear reactors in 15 European countries, the construction of national plans in the next few decades deep underground nuclear waste repository in response to the growing of high radioactive contamination.