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Johan Swahn, the director of MKG has written a text for Nuclear Transparency Watch (NTW) on the on-going licensing process in the Swedish environmental court for the proposed final repository at the Forsmark NPP. The court held its so-called "main hearing" in September and October and will give its opinion to the government on January 23.
The Environmental Court’s main hearing concerning the Swedish Nuclear Fuel and Waste Management Company SKB’s license application for a final repository for spent nuclear fuel in Forsmark, Sweden, began September 5, at Quality Hotel Nacka in Stockholm.
The Radiation Safety Authority, SSM, has recommended that the Swedish government give the go-ahead to the nuclear power industry’s plans for a final repository for nuclear fuel waste at Forsmark, north of Stockholm. The recommendation, announced on June 29, came amidst major concerns as to the ability of the envisaged copper canisters to contain the waste.
On May 31, the Swedish Society for Nature Conservation, SSNC, and the Swedish NGO Office for Nuclear Waste Review, MKG, submitted a brief to the Land- and Environmental Court, MMD, and the Swedish Radiation Safety Authority, SSM, on important issues in the review of the license application for final disposal of spent nuclear fuel at the Forsmark nuclear power plant.
On 5 February 2016 the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency sent out a consultation letter to the participating countries in the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) transboundary procedure for the planned Swedish system for final disposal of spent nuclear fuel.
On January 29, 2016, the Land and Environmental Court, MMD, and the Swedish Radiation Safety Authority, SSM, announced that the Swedish Nuclear Fuel and Waste Management Company’s, SKB’s, license application for final disposal of spent nuclear fuel in Forsmark can be seen as complete enough to review on its merits.
On June 26, the Swedish Society for Nature Conservation (SSNC)and the Swedish NGO Office for Nuclear Waste Review (MKG) submitted their third statement to the Land- and Environmental Court, answering the latest referral from the court in the review of completion.
On June 3, the Swedish NGO Office for Nuclear Waste Review, MKG, organized an international seminar with experts, invited to speak about the alternative method deep boreholes and the German nuclear waste situation.
On the 14:th of March, the Land- and Environmental court of Nacka revised their schedule for processing the application to build final repository for spent nuclear fuel in accordance with the Swedish Environmental Code. According to the former time frame, the court considered to give SKB an injunction to submit completions during January/February of 2014.
The Swedish Society for Nature Conservation and the Swedish NGO Office for Nuclear Waste Review, MKG, has submitted a joint statement on the power industry’s nuclear waste company’s research and development program Fud-13 to the Swedish Radiation Safety Authority.

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The government has on Jan 27 2022 taken a decision to approve the repository license application despite outstanding copper corrosion issues. Read more about this here >>

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