Sweden Gov Announces 'Massive Expansion' of Nuclear Energy

Re:Sweden Gov Announces 'Massive Expansion' of Nuclear Energy by epistasis on Thursday November 16, 2023 @07:39PM (#38297731)

What makes sense for Sweden may not make sense for the vast majority of energy production in the world.

It makes a lot of sense for Sweden to but nuclear, even if it is exceptionally pricy and slow to deliver, if they don't have better options. But the fraction of the world population in that situation is not large, either, so we shouldn't extrapolate from Sweden to too many other places.

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Re:Sweden Gov Announces 'Massive Expansion' of Nuclear Energy by natmaka on Saturday November 18, 2023 @12:23AM (#38315677)

Sweden:

1/ no new nuclear reactor since 1985, despite hydro being the best existing storage system for nuclear (hydro resources there are fantastic), and hydro remaining there the main source of electricity

2/ wind is very quickly gaining traction https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-elec-by-source?coun...

3/ Some may remember the Forsmark'2006 near-miss ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forsmark_Nuclear_Power_Plant#J... ) and fight against this project.

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