The Swedish Sea Transportation System - for Safety Reasons

When planning and site selection were made for storage facilities for spent fuel and reactor waste in the 1970s, the transport aspects were very important to consider. Studies were performed comparing road and sea transports. As a result it was decided to design and build a sea transportation system, where safety to the public and transporters had the highest priority. The Swedish waste management system also includes the intermediate storage facility for spent fuel, CLAB, and the repository for radioactive waste, SFR. All nuclear power plants and the two storage facilities are situated at the coast of Sweden. CLAB was taken into operation in 1985 and SFR in 1988.