The company in charge of managing Sweden's nuclear waste on Wednesday named a site north of Stockholm as the planned repository for spent fuel from the country's atomic power plants.
The Swedish Nuclear Fuel and Waste Management Company said it selected the site near the Forsmark nuclear plant, about 60 miles (100 kilometers) from Stockholm, after two decades of research.
"The Forsmark site offers rock at the repository level which is dry and has few fractures. These properties are of a major significance for long-term safety," the company said in a statement.
If approved by Swedish authorities, the site would become the final …
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