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Following a 14-year site selection process, Switzerland's national radioactive waste disposal cooperative Nagra has proposed Nördlich Lägern in northern Switzerland as the site of a deep geological repository. A used fuel encapsulation plant is to be built at the existing Zwilag interim storage facility.
Nowhere else in Switzerland can radioactive waste be stored as well as at the German border, say experts. Couldn't the German nuclear waste also be disposed of there?
A repository for nuclear waste could be built on the border with Germany. A planning application is to be submitted by 2024. The Swiss government then decides on the approval.