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Since the 1970s SKB has been developing a method to enable the handling and management of spent nuclear fuel safely for long periods of time. We have undertaken research and development and have conducted studies and investigations. A number of technical breakthroughs have been achieved during this time. The method we have selected means that the fuel is placed in copper canisters surrounded by bentonite clay about 500 metres underground in Swedish bedrock. We are now preparing for the components of this system that will deal with the encapsulation and final deposition of the spent nuclear fuel. This is the most difficult type of waste to deal with and it has to be isolated for at least 100,000 years.