Around the year 2045, all Swedish nuclear reactors will be taken out of operation.
For 40 years, the industry has been planning for what will happen to both the reactor buildings and the radioactive nuclear fuel.
The plan is to build two different final repositories in Forsmark, one for the long-lived nuclear fuel and one for the short-lived construction waste that is formed when the nuclear power plants are demolished.
On Wednesday, Minister of the Environment and Climate Annika Strandhäll will announce that the government has now decided to approve the part concerning the final repository of the short-lived waste.
It is about concrete and scrap metal that will be radioactive for about 1000 years.
Information on how the government views the final repository of the long-lived nuclear fuel, which has been radioactive for 100,000 years, will be submitted on 27 January.
The project will be independently financed by the industry via funds in the nuclear waste fund, where the nuclear power companies make payments each year in relation to how much nuclear energy they deliver.
The remaining cost of the Swedish nuclear waste program comprises approximately SEK 95 billion.
In 2020, there was more than SEK 77 billion in the nuclear waste fund.