ZURICH (Reuters) -Switzerland confirmed on Monday that its favoured location for a 20 billion Swiss franc ($20.94 billion) underground nuclear waste storage site was an area north of Zurich, close to the German border. The company behind the project to store the country’s nuclear waste for at least the next 200,000 years, the National Cooperative for the Disposal of Radioactive Waste (NAGRA), proposed northern Laegern for the site, which is due to become operational in 2050. Following a 14-year evaluation process, NAGRA – set up by nuclear power plant operators and the government – said the op…