Sweden Better Not Close Its Nuclear Power Plants — It Gets Really Cold There

No one has ever died because of Swedish nuclear power. Nuclear power provides 40% of that country?s electricity, has avoided over 2 billion tons of CO2 emissions, and has saved tens of thousands of lives by having not been fossil fuel. Sweden is a net exporter of low-carbon electricity to other parts of Europe. So, with their reactors only about half-way through their life-spans, who in Sweden would want to completely shut nuclear down? And what would be the effects?

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