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First of SKB’s major construction projects gets underway
In around one and a half years from now, SKB plans to fire the first blasting salvo in the work to extend the Final Repository for Short-lived Radioactive Waste (SFR) in Forsmark. The repository will be made almost three times larger, so that it can receive decommissioning waste from Swedish nuclear…
Published: 6 April 2023
Swedish Court grants licence for extended interim storage in Clab
The Land and Environment Court has today granted SKB an environmental licence to increase the quantity of spent nuclear fuel in the Clab interim storage facility from 8,000 tonnes to 11,000 tonnes. Meanwhile, the licensing process under the Swedish Nuclear Activities Act continues. SKB:s vd Johan Da…
Published: 22 June 2022
Next step following government decision
The Government’s decision on SKB’s repository system is not the last step in the licensing process. The case will now return to the Land and Environment Court and the Swedish Radiation Safety Authority, SSM, which will set detailed conditions for the coming activities. – We’re looking forward to mov…
Published: 10 February 2022
The Government approves SKB’s final repository system
On the 27th of January 2022, the Swedish Government decided to allow SKB to build a final repository for spent nuclear fuel in Forsmark in Östhammar Municipality and an encapsulation plant in Oskarshamn. Johan Dasht, Managing Director of SKB. Photo: Mikael Wallerstedt. – It is a historical decision …
Published: 27 January 2022