# Clab

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{{Short description|Radioactive waste repository in Sweden}}
thumb|Spent nuclear fuel storage pool, similar to those at the Clab
The '''Clab''', also known as {{lang|swe|Centralt mellanlager för använt kärnbränsle}} ([Swedish](/source/Swedish_language) for 'Central holding storage for spent nuclear fuel'), is an interim [radioactive waste](/source/radioactive_waste) repository located at [Oskarshamn Nuclear Power Plant](/source/Oskarshamn_Nuclear_Power_Plant)<ref name="SKB">{{cite web |url=http://www.skb.com/our-operations/clab/ |title=Clab – Central Interim Storage Facility for Spent Nuclear Fuel |publisher=SKB-Swedish Nuclear Fuel and Waste Management Company |website=skb.com |access-date=February 12, 2021}}</ref> about 25 km north of [Oskarshamn](/source/Oskarshamn). Clab used to be owned by [Oskarshamnsverkets Kraftgrupp AB](/source/OKG_AB) (OKG) but is now owned by Svensk Kärnbränslehantering Aktiebolag (SKB). It was opened in 1985 for the storage of spent [nuclear fuel](/source/nuclear_fuel) from all [Swedish](/source/Sweden) [nuclear power plant](/source/nuclear_power_plant)s. The fuel is stored for 30 to 40 years, in preparation for final storage.

The facility currently contains approximately 7,300 tons of [high-level waste](/source/high-level_waste), submerged in 8 meters of water, in pools 30 meters below the surface.<ref name="SKB" /> Contaminated reactor components, such as [control rod](/source/control_rod)s, are also stored at the facility.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.stralsakerhetsmyndigheten.se/In-English/About-the-Swedish-Radiation-Safety-Authority1/Our-work-to-enhance-safety-/Facilities-in-Sweden/Clab-/ |title=Clab |publisher=Swedish Radiation Safety Authority |access-date=September 17, 2017}}</ref> Waste produced from Sweden's nuclear power plants will continue be stored at the facility until the [Swedish Nuclear Fuel and Waste Management Company](/source/Swedish_Nuclear_Fuel_and_Waste_Management_Company) can complete construction of a more permanent storage site at [Forsmark](/source/Forsmark).

The facility contains an in-pool station where passive gamma-measurements can be done on spent nuclear fuel.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Vaccaro|first1=S.|last2=Tobin|first2=S. J.|last3=Favalli|first3=A.|last4=Grogan|first4=B.|last5=Jansson|first5=P.|last6=Liljenfeldt|first6=H.|last7=Mozin|first7=V.|last8=Hu|first8=J.|last9=Schwalbach|first9=P.|last10=Sjöland|first10=A.|last11=Trellue|first11=H.|date=2016-10-11|title=PWR and BWR spent fuel assembly gamma spectra measurements|journal=Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment|language=en|volume=833|pages=208–225|doi=10.1016/j.nima.2016.07.032|bibcode=2016NIMPA.833..208V |issn=0168-9002|doi-access=free}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|date=2020-08-01|title=Time stamped list mode data from gamma-ray spectroscopic measurements on 47 nuclear fuel assemblies performed at Clab, Sweden, September 2016 through March 2019|url= |journal=Data in Brief|language=en|volume=31|article-number=106039|doi=10.1016/j.dib.2020.106039|issn=2352-3409|pmc=7394847|pmid=32775557|last1=Jansson |first1=Peter |last2=Bengtsson |first2=Martin |last3=Bäckström |first3=Ulrika |last4=Grape |first4=Sophie |last5=Branger |first5=Erik |last6=Sjöland |first6=Anders |bibcode=2020DIB....3106039J}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20101003083022/http://www.skb.se/templates/standard____15094.aspx Clab] Svensk Kärnbränslehantering AB about Clab (in Swedish)

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Category:Nuclear materials
Category:Nuclear reprocessing
Category:Nuclear technology in Sweden
Category:Radioactive waste
Category:Radioactive waste repositories

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