Disposal facilities: living next to a nuclear waste dump – and liking it

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How a village in Aargau copes with hosting a storage facility for nuclear waste. Switzerland is planning deep geological repositories to store nuclear waste as it can be radioactive for thousand of years. But first nuclear waste goes through interim storage facilities where will be kept for up to 50 years. Zwilag is one of these facilities and it has been located since 2001 in Würenlingen, a municipality in the canton of Aargau. (SRF/swissinfo.ch)