Waste Management

China / Construction Begins Of $422M Underground Laboratory For Repository Research

By David Dalton
18 June 2021

Construction Begins Of $422M Underground Laboratory For Repository Research
A computer-generated image of the planned laboratory in China. Courtesy CAEA.
Construction has begun in China of a $422m underground laboratory for research into storing high-level radioactive waste from the country’s growing fleet of nuclear power plants with the aim of building the country’s first deep geologic repository by 2050.

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