Slovenia to Get Radwaste Repository in 2016

Krško, 8 March - Slovenia is one of a handful of European countries with nuclear power stations that do not have a repository for low and medium-level radioactive waste. But a site not far from the Krsko Nuclear Power Plant (NEK) has now been selected and the repository is due to go into operation in 2016.

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Director of the Agency for Radioactive Waste Vladislav Kroselj.
Photo: Rasto Bozic/STA

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The plan for a radwaste repository at Vrbina.
Photo: Rasto Bozic/STA

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The plan for a radwaste repository at Vrbina.
Photo: Rasto Bozic/STA

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