New Romanian geological storage facility seen built by 2055
Thursday, November 27, 2008
Romania might have a geological storage facility for used nuclear fuel by 2055, chairman of the National Agency for Radioactive Waste Gheorghe Ionita announced at a news conference on last Thursday. He explained the programme entails the conduct of an analysis and a survey and the selection of the host rock, which might be granite, clay, salt or schist.'We are looking for millions-of-years-old rocks. We must study the formation on site and the survey takes at least 20 to 30 years', Ionita ...