No one has ever died because of Swedish nuclear power. Until recently, nuclear power provided about 40% of that country’s electricity, similar to hydro. Fossil fuels only generated about 1% of Sweden’s electricity. But that’s about to change for the worse. Sweden’s Barsebäck 2 nuclear plant was closed in May 2005 after only 28 years operation, against … [+] previous agreements with the government. It was supposed to be replaced with wood and gas plus some wind, but has been replaced by electricity imports, much of them coal and gas. Lars Bo Wassini As Sama Bilbao y Léon and John Lindberg at World Nuclear Association write, “[Starting in 1980] Sweden had proved to the world that it was possible to free itself from fossil fuels for electricity production in less than a decade. One of the world’s cheapest and cleanest electricity systems was delivered, at the same time as Swedish life improved without sacrificing the environment.” For almost ten years, Sweden has been a net exporter of low-carbon electricity to other parts of Europe. Sweden is farther along in its commercial nuclear waste disposal program than most countries and is building two deep geologic nuclear waste repositories at Forsmark. So, with their nuclear reactors only about half-way through their life-spans, and the whole program running really well, who in Sweden would want to completely shut them down? Um…members of the Swedish c… Click below to read the full story from Forbes
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Irrational Nuclear Fear Puts Sweden In Danger Of Succumbing To Stupidity
