Swedish Nuclear Power and the radioactive waste management system
Description
In Sweden, nuclear power began to be used in earnest in the early 1970s and today accounts for about half of the electricity generated. Two regulatory authorities supervise nuclear facilities - The Swedish Nuclear Power Inspectorate (SKI) and the Swedish Radiation Protection Authority (SSI). In 1980, Sweden held an advisory referendum on nuclear power. The result of this referendum called for a gradual phasing out of nuclear power and two reactors (Barsebaeck 1 and 2) were shut down in 1999 and 2005. However, nuclear power is now viewed in light of global warming and is perceived to be one way to reduce greenhouse emissions. The remaining reactors have no time limit set; instead we are working with power up rate as well as increasing safety and security for extended lifetime
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Publisher
- KAIF-KNS
- Imprint Place
- Seoul (Korea, Republic of)
- Imprint Title
- Proceedings of the 21st KAIF/KNS Annual Conference
- Imprint Pagination
- 468 p.
- Journal Page Range
- p. 159
Conference
- Title
- 21. KAIF/KNS Annual Conference
- Dates
- 19-21 Apr 2006
- Place
- Seoul (Korea, Republic of)
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Korea, Republic of
- Country of Input or Organization
- Korea, Republic of
- INIS RN
- 44064658
- Subject category
- S12: MANAGEMENT OF RADIOACTIVE WASTES, AND NON-RADIOACTIVE WASTES FROM NUCLEAR FACILITIES; S21: SPECIFIC NUCLEAR REACTORS AND ASSOCIATED PLANTS;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Conference, Non-conventional Literature
- Descriptors DEI
- EMISSION; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; NUCLEAR FACILITIES; NUCLEAR POWER; RADIOACTIVE WASTE MANAGEMENT; REACTOR SHUTDOWN; SAFETY; SECURITY; SWEDEN
- Descriptors DEC
- CLIMATIC CHANGE; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; EUROPE; MANAGEMENT; POWER; SCANDINAVIA; SHUTDOWN; WASTE MANAGEMENT; WESTERN EUROPE