Swedish Alliance Party Calls for Nuclear Rethink

Sweden should rethink its commitment to phase out nuclear power and build four new atomic plants in the next few years, the leader of one of its ruling, centre-right alliance parties said on Friday.

The call for a rethink follows hot on the heels of Britain’s decision to invest in new nuclear power stations and echoes a growing movement which sees atomic energy as a means to tackle global warming and meet climate change emission targets.
Liberal Party leader Jan Bjorklund said Sweden’s parliament should scrap its ban on building new nuclear power stations soon after the next election, due in 2010.

The Liberal Party is one fo three junior members of the centre-right coalition government dominated by the bigger Moderate Party.

“As a first step, we need to invest in four new nuclear reactors,” Bjorklund said in an article in daily Dagens Nyheter.

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