Comments on: Sweden is an Energy Leader: 10 Key Points

By: Bill Woods

Bill Woods — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 17:46:38 +0000

To me it seems likely that, since they’ve gone to the trouble of repealing the law which barred building new reactors to replace old ones, when the need arises they’ll do exactly that.

By: Zachary Shahan

Zachary Shahan — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 13:09:18 +0000

i would be, too

By: Zachary Shahan

Zachary Shahan — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 13:08:13 +0000

hey Bill, i went to bed thinking about this more. ‘soon’ or even ‘relatively’ soon can mean very different things to different people. & there is no indication as to when the will actually completely phase out nuclear. so, i’ve changed the wording a bit. changed it to ‘sooner or later’

By: Pelle

Pelle — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 10:00:09 +0000

Proud to be swedish, now its time other follow our example

By: Zachary Shahan

Zachary Shahan — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 00:44:11 +0000

JZ: the source is linked in the article. it is the article by Evan Mills of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories. as i said, i was summarizing some key points from that piece, which was referencing a number of sources (some available on the web, some not)..

By: Zachary Shahan

Zachary Shahan — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 00:41:45 +0000

because, as you mention, they don’t get much from fossil fuels at this point and they will likely have the ability and desire to expand their use of renewable resources in the years to come. the old nuclear plants that are running now are known for being unreliable and will not last forever. with no plans to expand their nuclear plants and a moratorium on it, it seems like they will be nuclear-free before too long.

By: Bill Woods

Bill Woods — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 00:09:11 +0000

“Sweden didn’t meet its deadline of shutting down all of its remaining nuclear reactors by January 1, 2011, but a moratorium on nuclear expansion remains and one would expect that the country will phase out nuclear relatively soon.”

Uh, why would one expect anything of the sort? Sweden dropped that phase-out deadline back in 1997, and formally dropped its phase-out policy last year. Not that there’s a lot of room for expansion, since Sweden gets less than 10% of its electricity from fossil fuels.

By: JZ

JZ — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 23:11:31 +0000

I admire the work done to put this together but I would encourage you to post the sources of your information/list of facts. This needs to be a standard for all serious web content to help researchers and any readers who want to take such info seriously.

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