> because they're hugely expensive, they always require massive government subsidies, so are a convenient way to pipe taxpayer money to "useful friends".
And yet Sweden is not giving any subsidies (at least for now) and thus no new plants have actually been seriously planned.
The change here (going from 100% green to 100% fossil free) just means giving nuclear power access to the same subsidies green energy is receiving now with the important one being the government being a guarantor for some of the loans (25 billion SEK for this year). It remains to be seen if this is enough to actually get new projects going (probably not).
> nuclear power stations are a convenient way to produce material for nuclear weapons.
Sweden abandoned its (secret) nuclear weapons program in 1972 without managing to build a single weapon and it is very unlikely that they would be trying to get one now.
Ah, in that case it probably won't go ahead. Nuclear is just too risky an investment for pretty much anyone unless you have government guarantees.
With regard to nuclear weapons: most of what the UK produced actually went to the USA rather than its own program. Did Sweden do that, or is that still classified?
Sweden wasn’t (and still isn’t) part of NATO so they were making their own bomb for real.
Basically to the point that they had all the parts needed to assemble one and just needed a law change/approval the government to finish it (would have taken ~6 months of work)
And yet Sweden is not giving any subsidies (at least for now) and thus no new plants have actually been seriously planned.
The change here (going from 100% green to 100% fossil free) just means giving nuclear power access to the same subsidies green energy is receiving now with the important one being the government being a guarantor for some of the loans (25 billion SEK for this year). It remains to be seen if this is enough to actually get new projects going (probably not).
> nuclear power stations are a convenient way to produce material for nuclear weapons.
Sweden abandoned its (secret) nuclear weapons program in 1972 without managing to build a single weapon and it is very unlikely that they would be trying to get one now.