Swedish Green Party moves to drop its opposition to nuclear power

https://www.dn.se/sverige/mp-karnkraften-behover-inte-avvecklas-omedelbart/

by Sir_Madfly

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  1. Swedish Green Party: Nuclear Power Doesn’t Need Immediate Decommissioning

    The Swedish Green Party no longer insists on the immediate decommissioning of nuclear power and does not oppose the construction of new reactors. These are some of the proposals included in the Green Party’s new platform.

    “We must prioritize the climate transition,” says Party Secretary Katrin Wissing.

    On Monday, the Green Party sent a proposal for a revised party platform to its members. The current platform dates back to 2013, and the party leadership believes it needs to be updated.

    “The world has changed since then. Additionally, nearly half of our members have joined since 2013,” says Katrin Wissing.

    A significant change is the party’s updated stance on nuclear power. The current platform demands the immediate initiation of nuclear decommissioning and opposes building new reactors. These positions have been removed from the newly proposed platform.

    “This has been a topic of discussion within the party. Primarily, it’s about how electrification is central to the broader climate transition. The climate transition is what we must prioritize,” says Katrin Wissing.

    She emphasizes that the party has already taken steps in this direction. At the 2023 party congress, a decision was made that nuclear power should not be phased out too quickly. Additionally, during the 2016 energy agreement, the Green Party accepted that new reactors could be built if done on market-based terms.

    However, according to Katrin Wissing, the likelihood of new reactors being built is slim.

    “It’s quite clear that there’s no real interest in building new nuclear power plants under those conditions.

    “Nuclear power is very expensive to construct, and it takes a long time. We can’t wait for new electricity; we need it here and now,” she says, calling instead for investments in other energy sources such as wind and solar power.

    The new language in the party platform also highlights the risks associated with nuclear power:

    “Nuclear power carries significant risks and produces hazardous waste for which no acceptable solution currently exists. Building new nuclear power plants would be more expensive than renewable alternatives and take too long given the urgent reductions in fossil emissions needed,” the proposed platform states.

    It also reaffirms that the Green Party’s top priority is fossil-free energy and its goal of achieving a fully renewable energy system.

    Another area where the Green Party wants to introduce changes is in ensuring a just climate transition. The party has faced criticism for disregarding how the climate transition impacts people’s daily lives and now wants to present a different vision for its goals.

    “We need to consider the varying conditions across the country to find the right solutions in the right places. It’s clear that we need to focus on ensuring the transition is just. We must bring people along on this journey so we can achieve it,” says Katrin Wissing.

    The proposal for the new party platform will be discussed in the spring and decided upon at the Green Party congress in October.

  2. Fucking finally, Germany when?
    It has been bothering me for a while, I hope all green parties realise the potential of clean nuclear energy

  3. I mean keeping the current ones active is understandable. Constructing new ones is madness, I mean look at France: nuclear energy is expensive, it takes ages to construct new nuclear reactors, the fuel rods come from Russia (so we are making ourselves dependent on the Russians…again.) and nobody wants to have radioactive trash being buried next to one’s house or close to the groundwater.

  4. Good. It’s a hard pill to swallow for many old-timers. Hopefully, Germans will follow suit.

  6. I honestly get pretty mad thinking about how many years of nuclear energy progress and innovation was wasted by ignorant politicians not understanding the massive potential of it.

  8. Why… would they be opposed to that? Like genuine question.

  13. Fucking FINALLY. None of you guys can begin to fathom how bad this little 5% party has been for energy prices and climate here. We’ve been forced to buy expensive german earth-coal energy cause this little “climate” party keeps sabotaging real solutions in favor of inefficient feel-good alternatives. Finally the socdem coalition wont be DOGSHIT.

  14. Finally! Europe needs to go green, be that green energy green from wind and sun, or from uranium.

  17. Finally common sense is penetrating the thick skulls of politicians.

    We need energy independence, Europe can’t be at the mercy of USA and Russia. I hope France can lead the way and the nuclear sector will flourish.

  18. Finally, a green party that actually uses their heads.

  19. If only thr Swedish green party were more into environmental issues and less of what they have been wasting their time with, they would have not lost so many supporters over the last 10 years.

  21. Just over 10 years ago the same party in govt at the time literally publicly told Vattenfalls CEO he better shut up about nuclear making perfect financial sense for the company and sweden, or look for a new job.

    Vattenfall is a public company with majority government control. Saying something like that was bordering on illegal.

    So I don’t buy this.

  22. The Swedish nuclar reactors are aging and start to come close to their practical economic life span.

    Some of the older “modern” reactors, have already been closed down, becuse the referbish cost was to high.

    So you have to build new at some point, it have not yet affected the Swedish electricity production, becuse the power output of the “younger” and largere reactors have its output increased.

  23. About time the greens started being rational and pragmatical.

    With some more waking up, they could be the alternative parties we’ve needed worldwide, instead of having to chose between inept and corrupt traditional parties and stupid extremist parties.

  24. Irrelevant. Nobody in their right mind will want to build nuclear.

    The ones who do and are in power want nuclear because they can steal an obscene amount of money from the people.

  25. It’s a good thing that current plants won’t get shut down prematurely, only question is how they would vote if there are very costly repairs required for the current ones.

    Other than that, nothing has changed since 2016, unless they have dropped that requirement that new reactors will only be built on market-based terms, because there’s no chance that you can do that today, and it gets harder and harder to do so.

  26. What is this?! The outbreak of common sense among greens?

  27. Are they really doing it, or are they doing it half-assed like they did in Finland: “We have stopped opposing nuclear, we still won’t vote yes for nuclear but now we vote empty instead of no”?

  28. Putin money has dried out?
    And to be serious, great news. We need more nuclear power in Europe. Only reliable source that can easily replace coal, gas or oil.

  29. These stupid greens are nothing but trouble. In Germany, these fuckers have shut down all nuclear power plants, but at the same time they have increased the extraction of brown coal and gas imports, as if coal and gas are clean energy. I hope this eco-schizo will end soon.

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