Swedish opposition to nuclear energy on the up
Published: 28 Apr 12 15:38 CET | Print version
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Swedes have become more negative towards nuclear power in the year since Japan's nuclear catastrophe in Fukushima, a new survey by the SOM institute at Gothenburg University has shown.
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The proportion in favour of expanding nuclear power resources in Sweden or replacing existing ones amounted to 35 percent.
The survey interviewed 1,500 people during the autumn of 2011 with the full results expected in June 2012.
The Swedish public has long been deeply divided regarding the nuclear power issue.
Following the Three Mile Island accident in Harrisburg, Virginia, USA in 1979, all political parties in Sweden's parliament agreed to the holding of a referendum.
The compromise that followed allowed for three different choices to be put to the public - option 1,2,3.
Option 2 - a sort of compromise promising a long term nuclear phase out and ensuring continued state ownership of power stations - won a narrow plurality of the non-binding referendum.
Following the vote, the parliament agreed to close all of Sweden's nuclear reactors by 2010. This date has passed without prospect of the decision being put into effect.
In fact parliament voted in June 2010 in favour of building new reactors to replace the existing ageing stations.
Nuclear power accounts for just under 40 percent of the electricity produced in Sweden with ten reactors currently in operation.
The ten reactors are located at three locations - Forsmark, Oskarshamn and Ringhals. Barsebäck in southern Sweden was closed in 2005.
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the problem is that most of the media and governments are still supportive of the nuclear industry and this will have to change before we see positive steps towards embracing the benefits of renewable energy
A change of heart ? ? ? ?
I think we need to change how we live, not just junk up the landscape in new ways to sustain all the current absurdities...
Sure, it's bad for those who live close and had to leave their homes. But compared to the other alternatives for producing energy, or particularly the alternative of not producing energy, this is minor.
I'd welcome a nuclear plant in my neighbourhood any time. Not right in the backyard, just because it's big and there's some traffic from people and stuff that go in and out, but other than that, a welcome neighbour. At least much better than the "green" fossil plants they're now building. (They're green because they're owned by the municipal company here, so the profits can be used by the politicians).
There is still no free lunch after thousands of years, simply amazing!