The Swedish Radiation Safety Authority and the Environmental Court will now review SKB’s application.
It will subsequently be presented for political decision in the relevant municipalities and by the government.
SKB is applying for permission to build an encapsulation facility in Oskarshamn Municipality and a final repository for spent nuclear fuel at Forsmark in Osthammar Municipality.
The encapsulation facility will be built next to the Clab interim storage facility, and the final repository will be built at a depth of almost 500m in the bedrock at Forsmark.
The company said that with these facilities in place, the system for managing spent nuclear fuel from Swedish nuclear power plants will be complete.
