Spain Approves List of Eligible Sites To Store Spent Nuclear Fuel, Waste

摘要

In accordance with a National Radioactive Waste Plan calling for centralized storage, the Spanish government Feb. 22 approved a definitive list of sites eligible to house spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste.rnAfter a bitter municipal bidding process that often created rifts within regions and political parties, a specially created Inter-ministerial Commission chose nine final candidates for the single Centralized Temporary Repository (ATC) and an accompanying five-hectare (12.36-acre) "technological center."