Government To Overturn Antinuclear Laws

摘要

The Swedish government has decided to abandon the country's longstanding nuclear phaseout policy and to permit the building of new reactors as part of a new "long-term, sustainable energy and climate policy." On February 5, Alliance for Sweden, the four-party coalition that governs the country, announced that it will introduce legislation to annul the nuclear phaseout act and to lift the ban on the construction of new nuclear plants. "It will be possible to grant permits for successively replacing current reactors as they reach the end of their technological and economic life," the policy statement says. State financial support in the form of either direct or indirect subsidies, however, was unlikely to be provided for nuclear projects.