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Reaction to the Barseback-2 Shutdown

By Eric McErlain
A number of Swedes from around the world are weighing in on the shutdown of Barseback-2 nuclear plant near Malmo. While one Swedish expatriate is applauding the move, others aren't convinced it's the right way to go.

Here's Anna Komheden from Stockholm:
I haven't really made up my mind yet what I think of it.. In a way, it is a decision that has been taken through a democratic process.. but shouldn't such decisions be amendable, as circumstances and scientific "truth" change? Because it isn't clear whether nuclear is that bad compared to if the shutting down of Barseback means that Sweden has to import more coal-produced energy from abroad.
State of the Union seems pretty exercised:
The green party has pushed real hard for this to happen even though the public opinion has turned to favour keeping the nuclear power, back in the 70's people believed that alternative sources of energy would come soon but now we can see that the only option we have to keep us warm in the wintertime is to import electricity from Poland and Russia. . .

So what are we to do now next winter if we don't have our own sources of energy? Will the green party go out and cut down trees so I can be warm? Because I will not freeze and I would rather have the nuclear energy than the Brown coal energy we are stuck with now.
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Matthew66 said…
I am disappointed that the Swedes have persisted in this action. The referendum was in 1980 - twenty-five years ago. Who had even heard of global warming then? I think it is likely that Sweden will end up importing nuclear generated electricity from Finland, which is just hypocrisy. Either that or the lights will go out.

I wonder if countries such as Finland, France, Czech Republic, Bulgaria and Lithuania will build nuclear power plants specifically to export electricity to the "green" countries that have banned it. To my mind it is utter hypocrisy to depend on the importation of nuclear generated electricity because you've banned it at home.
June 2, 2005 at 1:08 PM
Jonas Wiberg said…
I must say it's nice to have been quoted, blogging is so much more fun then.
However, to scrap a perfectly safe energysource is ludicrous but fits into the minds of the left and green parties, it is their ideology. The weirdest outcome of the referendum however must have been the law that banned anyone to plan construction of nuclear power plants or modify existing ones, just think of what we could have done with the cooling water instead of just letting it straight out in the sea...
wasting of resources I say, that water could have been used as heating.
June 3, 2005 at 6:00 AM
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