Äspö Hard Rock Laboratory

Äspö Hard Rock Laboratory (Äspölaboratoriet) is a research site located outside Oskarshamn in Kalmar County, Sweden.

[1] [2] The Äspö Hard Rock Laboratory is a research facility for future geological disposal of spent nuclear fuel.

It was built to test different methods and possibilities for final disposal of spent nuclear fuel.

There is no spent nuclear fuel on the site which makes it possible to keep the Äspö laboratory open to the public.

There is an exhibition at the site with information and also guided tours via a tunnel down through the bedrock which takes the visitors as far as 500 metres (1,600 ft) below ground.