Tag: spent fuel repository

There is strong support for SKB’s planned final repository for spent nuclear fuel in Forsmark. Eight out of ten residents (or 82 percent) in Östhammar Municipality are in favour of a spent fuel repository in the municipality, according to the annual opinion poll conducted by Novus. It is the highest…

SKB has submitted additional documentation regarding the application for a final repository system to the Ministry of the Environment. The supplement includes responses to the issues raised by the Land and Environment Court in its statement to the Government in January 2018. SKB's supplement in part…

Almost all parts of the application are approved, but the Land and Environment Court requests more documentation on the copper canister. Allan Hedin is a safety analyst at SKB and leads the work of preparing the supplementary documentation. – We plan to be ready during this year, he says. The court …

The answer was a clear yes in SSM’s statement to the Government on SKB’s system for final disposal of spent nuclear fuel. The Land and Environment Court was also positive in several important respects but calls for more documentation on the copper canisters. The Swedish Radiation Safety Authority (S…

Today, the Land and Environment Court submitted its statement to the Government in the case concerning a final repository for spent nuclear fuel. The court approves large parts of the application: issues relating to the site Forsmark, the rock, the buffer and the environmental impact assessment. The…

The Swedish Radiation Safety Authority, SSM, recommends the Government to grant a licence for a final repository for spent nuclear fuel in Forsmark and an encapsulation plant in Oskarshamn. SKB has the potential to meet the requirements of the Nuclear Activities Act concerning safe final disposal wi…

The fourth week of the hearing began with the court presenting the schedule for the week. SKB’s legal representative presented SKB’s demands with a special focus on the Spent Fuel Repository. Tuesday and Wednesday was about SKB’s operations and their consequences. SKB described the design of the Spe…

About 70 people were present at Forum in Oskarshamn when the third week of the main hearing began on Monday afternoon. SKB, the Swedish Radiation Safety Authority and other regulatory authorities, the municipalities, environmental organisations and both local newspapers were represented. A large par…

The main hearing on SKB’s application for a licence to build a system for management and disposal of Sweden’s spent nuclear fuel started September 5. The main hearing takes place during five weeks. The first two weeks will be in Stockholm, followed by one week in Oskarshamn and Östhammar Municipalit…

On Friday 17 March the Swedish Land and Environment Court decided that the main hearing on SKB’s application for permits to build a Spent Fuel Repository at Forsmark and an encapsulation facility in Oskarshamn will begin in September 2017. ”This is a welcome decision. The environmental assessment is…