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About sixty people joined the inspection in the area around Söderviken, where the Spent Fuel Repository will be built.  Photo: SKB. 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…

Inspection at Clab. Photo: SKB. 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 newspape…

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…

Eva Halldén is the new managing director of SKB since 1 April. She has been the managing director of both Ringhals and Forsmark nuclear power plants. – SKB has a very important task, and the company is now in an intensive phase with the environmental licensing in the Land and Environment Court this …

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. Christopher Eckerberg ”This is a welcome decision. The envir…

A new form, with a focus on technology development and decommissioning of nuclear facilities. SKB's programme for research and development has been submitted to the Swedish Radiation Safety Authority and will, after extensive referral for consideration and comment, be treated by the government. Ever…

In 1997 two steel canisters with electric heaters were installed horizontally in the rock. Photo: Birgitta Kalinowski. Although there are considerable differences in altitude between the bedrock at Forsmark and the Swiss Alps there are also similarities, similarities that are large enough for SKB to…

SKB is able to comply with radiation safety requirements for a final repository for spent nuclear fuel. This is what the Swedish Radiation Safety Authority (Strålsäkerhetsmyndigheten) says in its statement submitted to the Land and Environment Court. The Authority is acknowledging that in its coming…

This is what the underground Finnish final repository will look like. Illustration: Posiva Oy. Finland is to be the first country in the world to begin construction of a final repository for spent nuclear fuel and will do so using the method developed by SKB over many years. After a positive recomme…

The team working on the final repository project in Taiwan. SKB is now going to help Taiwan to get the work on the final disposal of its spent nuclear fuel off the ground. A three-year agreement has been signed to provide the Taiwanese with access to SKB’s expertise in, for instance, safety assessme…