Most Swedes want nuclear power

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File image: Swedish NPP.

by Staff Writers
Stockholm (AFP) Feb 13, 2009
Most Swedish people favour nuclear power as an energy source, a poll published Friday showed a week after the government decided it would not shut the country's 10 nuclear reactor plants.

About 62 percent of 1,016 people polled between February 5 and 11 by the Dagens Nyheter daily approved nuclear power, while 28 percent opposed it and 10 percent were undecided.

On Febrary 5, Sweden's government reversed a decision to phase out the country's 10 nuclear reactors.

The country had planned to wind down its nuclear energy capacity, ending it in about 20 to 30 years' time or when the reactors came to the end of their lives.

Since 1999, Sweden has closed two of its 12 nuclear reactors. The remaining 10 account for about half of the country's power requirements. In 2008, a poll showed that just 48 percent of Swedes supported building new reactors.

The Scandinavian nation is among industrialised ones where public perception of nuclear power has shifted in recent years from hostility to support because of climate change and opposition to fossil fuels.

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