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Sigrid now in Swedish waters The light of dawn welcomed M/S Sigrid as she called at a Swedish port for the first time. SKB's new transport vessel arrived to Ringhals on Monday 2 December. Sigrid glided into the port at the Ringhals nuclear power plant right before nine o'clock. The morning sun had j…

How do you win people's trust? And how do you know when the research you have done is enough? These are just some of the questions common to the three countries that have come furthest in the process of establishing final repositories for high-level waste. On Wednesday 2 October, an audience of arou…

Christopher Eckerberg has been appointed the new Managing Director of Swedish Nuclear Fuel and Waste Management Company (SKB). He will continue the company’s successful work in the safe management of spent nuclear fuel and nuclear waste. The Board of SKB has today appointed Christopher Eckerberg as …

An international review team appointed by the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) and commissioned by the Swedish government has reviewed SKB's application to build a final repository for spent nuclear fuel at Forsmark. Their conclusion is that the SKB safety analysis provides a satisfactory and credib…

On September 20, 2012, Saida Laârouchi Engström, SKB’s Vice President for Strategy and Programme, was named Knight of the French Legion of Honour. She received the decoration for her many years of contributions to France’s national nuclear waste management program and issues concerning the safety of…

Yesterday, March 16th, Swedish Nuclear Fuel and Waste Management Company, SKB, applied for a permit to build a final repository for spent nuclear fuel and a facility where the fuel will be encapsulated before being transported to the final repository. SKB’s application will now be reviewed by the Sw…