{
  "id": "forsmark-repository",
  "slug": "forsmark-repository",
  "name": "Forsmark spent fuel repository (KBS-3)",
  "stage": "repository",
  "company_id": "skb",
  "country_iso3": "SWE",
  "lat": 60.4,
  "lon": 18.167,
  "capacity_value": null,
  "capacity_unit": "tHM total",
  "capacity_year": null,
  "capacity_note": "Sized for Sweden's full inventory, roughly 12,000 tHM.",
  "output_value": null,
  "output_unit": null,
  "output_tu": null,
  "output_year": null,
  "status": "construction",
  "commissioned": null,
  "notes": "The second deep geological repository for spent fuel anywhere to begin construction. Copper canisters in bentonite clay, about 500 metres down in granite — the KBS-3 method Finland also uses. The construction licence was approved in September 2022, surface works are under way, and an application for underground excavation followed in January 2025. Operation is expected in the early 2030s.\n",
  "source_name": "World Nuclear Association, Storage and Disposal of Radioactive Waste",
  "source_url": "https://world-nuclear.org/information-library/nuclear-fuel-cycle/nuclear-waste/storage-and-disposal-of-radioactive-waste",
  "source_ref": null,
  "company_name": "Svensk Kärnbränslehantering (SKB)",
  "company_slug": "skb",
  "url": "https://nuclearchain.net/facilities/forsmark-repository/",
  "license": "CC BY 4.0",
  "attribution": "NuclearChain (nuclearchain.net)"
}