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After its founding in 1993, Slovakia faced two main challenges in the governance of nuclear waste disposal, mainly with regards to a final solution for spent nuclear fuel (SNF): 1.) the SNF generated in the territory of the former Czechoslovakia was to be disposed on the territory of the Czech Republic due to its more suitable geological conditions, and 2.) help was expected from Russia, as the former Czechoslovakia cooperated closely with the former Soviet Union. Despite the fact that a national agency for nuclear waste was envisaged in the Slovak legislation, its establishment was delayed, and relevant roles were ‘entrusted’ to the state-owned company JAVYS only in 2011. This contributed to the delayed restart of the national SNF geological repository development programme, which was suspended in 2004. Despite the government’s request to restart this programme as soon as possible, as affirmed in the Nuclear Back-end Strategy of 2008, only some desk research activities have been carried out since 2013. The plan for a final solution for SNF was most recently reported on in the joint National Policy and National Programme document (prepared in order to comply with the Council Directive-2011/70/Euratom), approved in 2015.
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Mihók, P. (2018). Delays in Finding a Solution. In: Brunnengräber, A., Di Nucci, M., Isidoro Losada, A., Mez, L., Schreurs, M. (eds) Challenges of Nuclear Waste Governance . Energiepolitik und Klimaschutz. Energy Policy and Climate Protection. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-21441-8_8
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