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Sweden’s nuclear waste pools found to have cracks

Cracks found in Swedish nuclear waste pools The Local,  12 Dec 12 The Swedish Radiation Safety Authority (Strålsäkerhetsmyndigheten) has asked nuclear waste contractors at the Oskarshamn nuclear plant to review their security requirements after cracks were found in the pools where nuclear waste is temporarily stored on site.  Cement walls
are cracked in two of ten waste pools at the Clab storage facility,
which is run by the Swedish Nuclear Fuel and Waste Management Company
(Svensk Kärnbränslehantering, SKB).

SKB must now look into whether the pools still live up to safety
requirements and report back to the Radiation Safety Authority.

The main aim at the interim storage is to make sure no water nor gas
can leak out, the statement pointed out.

One security requirement details that any cracks on the inside of the
pools not be wider than 0.4 millimetres, the agency noted in its
report.

It is the second time in less than a week that the Radiation Safety
Authority has wagged its fingers at the Oskarshamn nuclear plant.
….. http://www.thelocal.se/45026/20121212/#.UMogleR9JLs

December 13, 2012 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | safety, Sweden