Switzerland

Rest-of-World (Ecoinvent)

Nuclear waste storage - final repository for high level radioactive waste (nuclear waste storage construction)

Austria

Australia

Belgium

Bulgaria

Brazil

Canada

China

Cyprus

Czechia

Germany

Denmark

Estonia

Spain

Finland

France

United Kingdom

Greece

Croatia

Hungary

Indonesia

Ireland

India

Italy

Japan

Korea, Republic of

Lithuania

Luxembourg

Latvia

Malta

Mexico

Netherlands

Norway

Poland

Portugal

Romania

Central Asia and Pacific Asia, Oceania, Antarctica

East Europe and Iceland

Africa except Egypt and South Africa

Latin America except Brazil

Middle East, Asia and Egypt

Russian Federation (the)

Sweden

Slovenia

Slovakia

Türkiye

Taiwan (Province of China)

United States of America (the)

South Africa

Construction work

United Arab Emirates (the)

Afghanistan

Antigua and Barbuda

Albania

Angola

Argentina

Barbados

Bangladesh

Burkina Faso

Bahrain

Burundi

Benin

Bolivia, Plurinational State of

Bahamas

Bhutan

Belize

Central African Republic

Congo

Côte d'Ivoire

Chile

Cameroon

Colombia

Costa Rica

Dominica

Dominican Republic

Algeria

Ecuador

Egypt

Ethiopia

Fiji

Gabon

Grenada

Gambia

Guinea

Equatorial Guinea

Guatemala

Guinea-Bissau

Hong Kong

Honduras

Haiti

Israel

Iraq

Iran, Islamic Republic of

Iceland

Jamaica

Jordan

Kenya

Cambodia

Kiribati

Saint Kitts and Nevis

Kuwait

Kazakhstan

Lao People's Democratic Republic

Lebanon

Saint Lucia

Sri Lanka

Lesotho

Morocco

Moldova, Republic of

North Macedonia

Mali

Myanmar

Mongolia

Mauritius

Maldives

Malawi

Malaysia

Namibia

Niger

Educational and vocational structures

Health care structures

The activity generating the emissions is nuclear waste storage construction, final repository for high level radioactive waste. The Reference Product is nuclear waste storage, final repository for high level radioactive waste. This is an immobile infrastructure, representing the construction of a nuclear waste storage, final repository for high level radioactive waste. The infrastructure consists of a 5 km long ramp that leads to the approximately 650 m deep and 120 m thick host rock, suitable for approximately 16,000 m3 of waste like conditioned spent fuel (SF), vitrified high level waste (HLW) and intermediate level waste (ILW) repository. The area required for the external facilities of the portal area amounts to a maximum of 300 m × 150 m and is divided into two parts (50:50 split of 22500 m2 each): on the one hand, the administration building, operating building, ventilation building, equipment lock, railroad access road, road access road and, on the other hand, the conditioning and packaging facility (NTB 02-02) - covered in separate modules. A further area take-up originates from the facilities in the shaft head area in the emplacement operation (construction stage 3) and is estimated at 100 m × 100 m (10000 m2), including winding tower with exhaust vents, site office, crew rooms, workshop, transformer station, excavated material depot and equipment/materials hall. Thus, the total area conversion of the repository is approximately 32500 m2 (22500+10000). Of this, 80% (18000+8000=26000 m2) is assumed to be built-up, 20% (4500+2000=6500 m2) is assumed to be grassland. The first part of the area is used over a period of 23 years (8 years of construction and 15 years of operation), the second part during 15 years (operation only). This gives a value of 5.34E+5 m2a for industrial land use and 1.34E+5 m2a for green space. The total demand for buildings is 1.3E+5 m3. The process includes building material and energy requirements for concstruction, land use and decommission. The Reference Product amount is 1. The cut-off classification is allocatable product. The activity type is ordinary transforming activity. Please refer to the ecoinvent documentation for full details: https://ecoquery.ecoinvent.org/3.12/cutoff/dataset/5933/documentation

The activity generating the emissions is nuclear waste storage construction, final repository for high level radioactive waste. The Reference Product is nuclear waste storage, final repository for high level radioactive waste. This is an immobile infrastructure, representing the construction of a nuclear waste storage, final repository for high level radioactive waste. The infrastructure consists of a 5 km long ramp that leads to the approximately 650 m deep and 120 m thick host rock, suitable for approximately 16,000 m3 of waste like conditioned spent fuel (SF), vitrified high level waste (HLW) and intermediate level waste (ILW) repository. The area required for the external facilities of the portal area amounts to a maximum of 300 m × 150 m and is divided into two parts (50:50 split of 22500 m2 each): on the one hand, the administration building, operating building, ventilation building, equipment lock, railroad access road, road access road and, on the other hand, the conditioning and packaging facility (NTB 02-02) - covered in separate modules. A further area take-up originates from the facilities in the shaft head area in the emplacement operation (construction stage 3) and is estimated at 100 m × 100 m (10000 m2), including winding tower with exhaust vents, site office, crew rooms, workshop, transformer station, excavated material depot and equipment/materials hall. Thus, the total area conversion of the repository is approximately 32500 m2 (22500+10000). Of this, 80% (18000+8000=26000 m2) is assumed to be built-up, 20% (4500+2000=6500 m2) is assumed to be grassland. The first part of the area is used over a period of 23 years (8 years of construction and 15 years of operation), the second part during 15 years (operation only). This gives a value of 5.34E+5 m2a for industrial land use and 1.34E+5 m2a for green space. The total demand for buildings is 1.3E+5 m3. The process includes building material and energy requirements for concstruction, land use and decommission. The Reference Product amount is 1. The cut-off classification is allocatable product. The activity type is ordinary transforming activity. Please refer to the ecoinvent documentation for full details: https://ecoquery.ecoinvent.org/3.12/cutoff/dataset/9189/documentation

Property	Value
Name	Nuclear waste storage - final repository for high level radioactive waste (nuclear waste storage construction)
Sector	Buildings and Infrastructure
Category	Construction
Source	ecoinvent
Region	Switzerland (CH), Rest-of-World (Ecoinvent) (ECOINVENT_ROW)
Unit Type	Number
Year	1985
LCA Activity	source_specific

Emission Factor Name	Region	Source	Year	Unit
Nuclear waste storage - final repository for high level radioactive waste (nuclear waste storage construction)	Rest-of-World (Ecoinvent)	ecoinvent	1985	Number
Nuclear waste storage - final repository for high level radioactive waste (nuclear waste storage construction)	Switzerland	ecoinvent	1985	Number

Nuclear waste storage - final repository for high level radioactive waste (nuclear waste storage construction)

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