This report reflects an intensive phase of licensing in the Swedish programme for management of spent nuclear fuel. After six years of review by the Swedish regulator, the Land and Environment Court is now preparing for its main hearings in autumn 2017 on the licence application for a spent nuclear fuel repository at Forsmark and an encapsulation plan at Oskarshamn.

A major change in the Swedish nuclear programme since the previous national report is the the power company Vattenfall's planning for new nuclear reactors, for the purpose of replacing existing reactors, has been put on hold since late 2014.