Estonia preparing to build new nuclear waste repository

  • 2016-03-09
  • BNS/TBT Staff
TALLINN - The Estonian Ministry of Environment has made a proposal to the government to start preparations for the establishment of a new final repository for nuclear waste that is expected to be completed by 2040 at a cost of 89.2 million euros. Since the interim storage facility at Paldiski is a temporary solution and it isn’t possible to deposit waste there in necessary amounts in the long term, a final disposal facility for this purpose has to be set up by 2040 at the latest, it stands in the memorandum of the Cabinet sitting. “Work to set up the ...
 
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