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Solymár Repository (1959 - 1980?)

Hungarian Academy of Sciences
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Function: Radioactive waste repository
Location: Solymár, Hungary

The Solymár Repository was created as a temporary radioactive waste disposal site and located on the outskirts of Budapest. The waste comprised both natural and artificial radionuclides with a half-life greater than 30 days. At the time of closure, the 900 cubic metres of waste generated radioctivity in the order of 400 TBq (about 10 kCi).

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Location: Solymár, on the outskirts of Budapest.

Events
1960

Transfer of historical radioactive wastes from the Central Research Institute for Physics temporary storage facility

1976

Repository reaches its capacity of 900 cubic metres

1977 - 1980?

990 consignments of radioactive waste were transferred from the Solymár Repository to the Püspökszilágy Radioactive Waste Treatment and Disposal Facility

 
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Timeline

 c. 1954 - 1959 Radioactive Waste Storage Facility
       1959 - 1980? Solymár Repository
             1976 - Püspökszilágy Radioactive Waste Treatment and Disposal Facility

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