{"id":1115,"date":"2018-01-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-23T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/sweden\/bakgrund\/1115\/greenpeace-welcomes-court-decision-on-nuclear-waste\/"},"modified":"2024-08-21T14:24:10","modified_gmt":"2024-08-21T13:24:10","slug":"greenpeace-welcomes-court-decision-on-nuclear-waste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/sweden\/pressmeddelanden\/energi\/greenpeace-welcomes-court-decision-on-nuclear-waste\/","title":{"rendered":"Greenpeace welcomes court decision on nuclear waste"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today (January 23), the Swedish Land and Environmental Court in Stockholm gave its opinion to the government on whether to allow the final repository for spent nuclear fuel in Forsmark, Sweden. The court said it could not recommend the Government to approve of the application unless the industry can provide additional data proving that the capsules that would contain the spent nuclear fuels would not leak. The Swedish Radiation Safety Authority, SSM, has already given their opinion in which they recommend approval of the application by the nuclear industry association, SKB.The findings today is the result of seven years of investigations. After this the Government will give the final decision on whether to approve the application or not.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 We welcome this decision by the Land and Environmental Court of Sweden today. Its findings underline that problems of nuclear waste with the proposed method are far from being solved,\u00a0says\u00a0<strong>Rolf Lindahl<\/strong>\u00a0climate and energy campaigner of Greenpeace Sweden<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 The decision shows clearly that even after decades of research, safe handling of\u00a0nuclear spent\u00a0fuel cannot be guaranteed. As such this decision is a clear signal to our politicians to as quickly as\u00a0possible\u00a0phase out dangerous nuclear power and\u00a0shift\u00a0towards safe renewable energy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For more information, contact:<\/strong><br \/>\nRolf Lindahl<br \/>\nClimate and energy campaigner of Greenpeace Sweden<br \/>\n+46 70 397 58 70<br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:rolf.lindahl@greenpeace.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">rolf.lindahl@greenpeace.org<\/a><br \/>\n<\/a>Skype: rolflindahl<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div>\n\tToday (January 23), the Swedish Land and Environmental Court in Stockholm gave its opinion to the government on whether to allow the final repository for spent nuclear fuel in Forsmark, Sweden. The court said it could not recommend the Government to approve of the application unless the industry can provide additional data proving that the capsules that would contain the spent nuclear fuels would not leak. The Swedish Radiation Safety Authority, SSM, has already given their opinion in which they recommend approval of the application by the nuclear industry association, SKB.<\/p>\n<p>The findings today is the result of seven years of investigations. After this the Government will give the final decision on whether to approve the application or not.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":67,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"p4_og_title":"","p4_og_description":"","p4_og_image":"","p4_og_image_id":"","p4_seo_canonical_url":"","p4_campaign_name":"","p4_local_project":"","p4_basket_name":"","p4_department":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[26,52],"p4-page-type":[14],"class_list":["post-1115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-energi","tag-atomkraft","tag-english","p4-page-type-pressmeddelanden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/sweden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/sweden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/sweden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/sweden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/sweden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1115"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/sweden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4154,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/sweden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1115\/revisions\/4154"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/sweden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/sweden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/sweden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/sweden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1115"},{"taxonomy":"p4-page-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/sweden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/p4-page-type?post=1115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}