Nuclear Waste Storage and Climate Change: What should we expect?

... repository for spent fuel and high level waste have stalled due to local political resistance. In Canada, the UK, Germany and Japan the search for deep disposal sites has commenced, but the facilities will not open for another few decades. Russia's Rosatom also has plans for the final disposal of some high level and long-life nuclear waste in deep geological formations (more than 500 meters) in Krasnoyarsk kray, between 2021 and 2030 , on the basis of an underground research laboratory which would confirm the suitability of the local geological processes. Longer-term climate ...