The Belgian National Agency for Radioactive Waste and enriched Fissile Material (Ondraf/Niras) has submitted and posted online a draft long-term management plan for high-level and long-lived conditioned radioactive waste to the Federal Agency for Nuclear Control.
The plan, which is also the subject of a public inquiry, calls for a deep geological storage system on Belgian territory.
In a statement Ondraf/Niras said this means that radioactive waste would be stored in an underground repository in a stable geological layer that would contain and isolate it in the long-term.
The plan, which is also the subject of a public inquiry, calls for a deep geological storage system on Belgian territory.
In a statement Ondraf/Niras said this means that radioactive waste would be stored in an underground repository in a stable geological layer that would contain and isolate it in the long-term.
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