SFR, Forsmark
SFR, Forsmark is a repository facility operated by Svensk Kärnbränslehantering (SKB) in Sweden. Its capacity is not publicly disclosed.
Short-lived low and intermediate level waste, in caverns 50 metres below the Baltic seabed and reached by a tunnel from shore. Operating since 1988, on the same site where Sweden is now building its spent fuel repository, which is unusual: almost nowhere else has a community accepted both.
Facility
| Stage | Geological disposal |
|---|---|
| Operator | Svensk Kärnbränslehantering (SKB) |
| Country | Sweden |
| Capacity | not disclosed |
| Figure applies to | - |
| Status | operating |
| Commissioned | 1988.0 |
| Coordinates | 60.4039, 18.1750 |
Position in the chain
No disclosed capacity, so its share of world repository capacity cannot be stated.
Svensk Kärnbränslehantering (SKB) also operates:
- Clab central interim storage (dry_storage)
- Forsmark spent fuel repository (KBS-3) (repository)
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 |
| 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 |
| Rokkasho LLW Disposal Center | 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