|Where are the wastes today?| Where the two repositories will be
constructed is decided as part of a prescribed multi-stage
selection process – the Sectoral Plan for Deep Geological
Repositories. The Federal Government has the lead in this
process; safety takes priority in site selection. The first
stage of the process was completed at the end of 2011. The aim
was to identify areas in Switzerland that would fundamentally be
suitable as geological siting regions (see previous question).
In the second stage, Nagra will investigate and compare the
geological siting regions and propose a narrowed-down selection.
The details of the repository projects will also be concretised.
Siting areas for the surface facility will be identified
together with the public and the authorities in the siting
regions. The safety authorities, the Federal Government and the
Cantons support and monitor the work. In Stage 3, Nagra will
further investigate and compare the remaining geological siting
regions and propose those that, in the