Rokkasho LLW Disposal Center
Rokkasho LLW Disposal Center is a repository facility operated by Japan Nuclear Fuel Limited in Japan. Its capacity is not publicly disclosed.
Japan's low level waste repository, on the same Rokkasho site as the reprocessing plant that has never operated and the MOX plant still under construction. The part of the complex that works is the one that buries things.
Facility
| Stage | Geological disposal |
|---|---|
| Operator | Japan Nuclear Fuel Limited |
| Country | Japan |
| Capacity | not disclosed |
| Figure applies to | - |
| Status | operating |
| Commissioned | 1992.0 |
| Coordinates | 40.9500, 141.3833 |
Position in the chain
No disclosed capacity, so its share of world repository capacity cannot be stated.
Japan Nuclear Fuel Limited also operates:
- Rokkasho Enrichment Plant (enrichment)
- J-MOX, Rokkasho (fabrication)
- Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant (reprocessing)
Other repository facilities
| Facility | Capacity | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Wolsong LILW Disposal Center, Gyeongju | 800,000drums | operating |
| Konrad | 303,000m³ | construction |
| Yucca Mountain | 70,000tHM total | closed |
| Asse II | 47,000m³ | closed |
| Morsleben (ERAM) | 37,000m³ | closed |
| Onkalo | not disclosed | construction |
| Forsmark spent fuel repository (KBS-3) | not disclosed | construction |
| Cigéo | not disclosed | planned |
| Canadian deep geological repository | not disclosed | planned |
| Nördlich Lägern | not disclosed | planned |
| Waste Isolation Pilot Plant | not disclosed | operating |
| SFR, Forsmark | not disclosed | operating |
| Olkiluoto VLJ repository | not disclosed | operating |
| Loviisa VLJ repository | not disclosed | operating |
| Centre de l'Aube (CSA) | not disclosed | operating |
| El Cabril | not disclosed | operating |
| Low Level Waste Repository, Drigg | not disclosed | operating |
| Bátaapáti National Radioactive Waste Repository | not disclosed | operating |
| Yeniseisky underground research laboratory, Krasnoyarsk | not disclosed | construction |
| Beishan underground research laboratory | not disclosed | construction |
Sources
- World Nuclear Association, Storage and Disposal of Radioactive Waste · retrieved 2026-09-06
How these sources are used, including the corrections applied on top of them and what is deliberately left blank · download the underlying data