Radioactive waste repositories

Gorleben () is a small municipality (Gemeinde) in the Gartow region of the Lüchow-Dannenberg district in the far north-east of Lower Saxony, Germany, a region also known as the Wendland.

nuclear power plant in Eurajoki, Finland

Sellafield, formerly known as Windscale, is a large multi-function nuclear site close to Seascale on the coast of Cumbria, England. As of August 2022, primary activities are nuclear waste processing and storage and nuclear decommissioning. Former activities included nuclear power generation from 1956 to 2003, and nuclear fuel reprocessing from 1952 to 2022.

right|thumb|270px|Rokkasho village hall right|thumb|270px|Rokkasho coastline right|thumb|270px|Rokkasho Atomic Energy Visitors Center

thumb|right|250px|Location of Cadarache (marked in red) in Southern France

nuclear waste repository excavated deep within a stable geologic environment

nuclear power plant

nuclear power plant

deep geological repository for radioactive waste in Finland

naturally occurring uranium deposit where self-sustaining nuclear chain reactions have occurred

thumb|The natural nuclear fission reactors of Oklo:

Dounreay (; ) is a small settlement and the site of two large nuclear establishments on the north coast of Caithness in the Highland area of Scotland. It is on the A836 road west of Thurso.

messages on nuclear waste stations, intended to deter the entrance of future intelligent life

method to dispose of nuclear and radioactive waste

former salt mine; deep geological repository in Lower Saxony, Germany

non-departmental public body of the United Kingdom

rock laboratory aimed to characterize the Callovo-Oxfordian Clay

radioactive waste repository

COVRA (Centrale Organisatie Voor Radioactief Afval) is the only Dutch nuclear waste processing and storage company. Located in Nieuwdorp, it stores waste produced at the Borssele nuclear power plant after it is reprocessed by Areva NC in La Hague, France. The company also stores radioactive waste from hospitals and laboratories. COVRA currently has a license to operate for one hundred years.

Vaalputs is the only South African radioactive waste-disposal facility, called the Vaalputs Radioactive Waste Disposal Facility, operated by NECSA. The facility is located about 100 km south-east of Springbok, in the Northern Cape. It covers an area of approximately 10,000 hectare, measuring 16,5 km from east to west and 6,5 km from north to south at its narrowest point.