Today, the Department of Energy Technology (IFE) has a concession to own and operate the Norwegian nuclear facilities in Halden and at Kjeller, as well as the operation of the waste landfill for low- and medium-level radioactive material in Himdalen (KLDRA), where Statsbygd holds the ownership concession. In the long term, NND will take over all the concessions. It shall be NND's main priority to prepare for the takeover of all relevant facilities, with the associated necessary personnel and responsibilities from IFE and Statsbygd.

NND will develop solutions for the storage of all radioactive waste in Norway in a concept selection report to be submitted to the Ministry of Industry and Fisheries. The deadline for delivery has been postponed in order to give NND the opportunity to prioritize other tasks.

In Storting Notice 8 (2000-2021), the aim is to be able to transfer responsibility for the operation and ownership of the nuclear facilities in Halden, Kjeller and Himdalen to NND on 1 January 2024. For this to be possible, NND must submit a complete licence application to the Directorate of Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety (DSA). NND submitted application for concessions on 21.12.2022

On 1 June, NND submitted a concept selection note to the NFD, in which the conclusion is that temporary storage facilities for radioactive waste should be built either at Rokke in Halden municipality or at Sommerro in Aremark municipality.

NND applies for concession: An important milestone in the nuclear clean-up

Norwegian Nuclear Decommissioning (NND) has the task of cleaning up after Norway's nuclear activities and recently submitted its first application for a concession to take over ownership of the Norwegian nuclear facilities from the Department

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The report Limited Concept Selection Study on the treatment of Norwegian spent reactor fuel was submitted to the Ministry of Industry and Fisheries in June 2020. This is NND's first concept selection investigation.

Here you can read NND's annual report for 2019.

On 1 January 2020, NND took over responsibility for the clean-up of AS Norsk Bergverk's mining operations at Søve mines in the municipality of Nome in Telemark.

Norwegian Nuclear Decommissioning (NND) was established in the Council of State on 9 February 2018 as an ordinary administrative body subordinate to the Ministry of Industry and Fisheries with effect from 12 February 2018. NND shall be a national body for the clean-up of Norway's nuclear activities and the safe handling of Norwegian nuclear waste.

It is decided that a new government agency, which will be in charge of the cleanup, will be added to Halden and has been named Norwegian Nuclear Decommissioning (NND).

The government recommends that the central government should help finance a future clean-up of nuclear waste.