Sweden's parliament on Tuesday (20 June) adopted a new energy target, giving the right-wing government the green light to push forward with plans to build new nuclear plants in a country that voted 40 years ago to phase out atomic power.
Nuclear is the cleanest energy available on the planet. The fuel lasts for decades and is 90% recyclable. Heat up water, make steam, spin turbines. That’s it. Then you recycle the rods and do it again. Only 10% of the energy can’t be used after decades of producing power.
Grid-scale energy storage is not yet practical. When the wind isn’t blowing and the sun isn’t shining, do you want to burn gas or nuclear. Those are the choices.
Though, I suppose you could also go the German route, close your nuclear plants and then be forced to reopen coal plants due to power shortages.
Sweden has so much potential for actually clean energy… Nuclear is not good.
Nuclear is the cleanest energy available on the planet. The fuel lasts for decades and is 90% recyclable. Heat up water, make steam, spin turbines. That’s it. Then you recycle the rods and do it again. Only 10% of the energy can’t be used after decades of producing power.
Grid-scale energy storage is not yet practical. When the wind isn’t blowing and the sun isn’t shining, do you want to burn gas or nuclear. Those are the choices.
Though, I suppose you could also go the German route, close your nuclear plants and then be forced to reopen coal plants due to power shortages.