Nuclear plant switches to dry cask storage system

Slovenia's sole nuclear power station in Krško has finished building its new dry cask storage facility for spent nuclear fuel, a EUR 100 million project that has been completed as part of the plant's latest ten-year security upgrade.

Initially, 300 tonnes of spent nuclear fuel will be transferred from the wet storage pool to the dry storage facility that was built over the past eight years using established Western technology.

Dry cask storage does not require additional systems and energy to operate it, which will makes spent fuel storage simpler, cheaper and safer, the...