Publications

Here you can find legal briefs, translated to english, from the Swedish Society for Nature Conservation, Friends of the Earth Sweden and the NGO Office for Nuclear Waste Review (MKG) and member organisations with opinions in the review of the application for a repository for spent nuclear fuel.

A brochure about MKG

[pdf] MKG Report 6 "Comments on plans for the final disposal of spent nuclear fuel", june 2012.

In March 2011 the Swedish nuclear industry applied for a license to build a repository for final disposal of spent nuclear fuel. The repository has to be tightly sealed for hundreds of thousands of years. But in a worst-case scenario the copper canisters may rust and start to leak after only some hundreds of years.  

[pdf] MKG Report 4 "Comments from the Swedish Society for Nature Conservation, SSNC, and the Swedish NGO office for Nuclear Waste Review, MKG, on the industry's, SKB, research programme Fud-07" >>

Information sheet on alternative methods and sites >>

(pdf) MKG Report 2 "Final Deposition of High-level Nuclear Waste in Very Deep Boreholes – An evaluation based on recent research of bedrock conditions at great depths", December 2006 >>