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Summary of the Swedish nuclear power referendum
| Author | D.Abrahamson, T.B.Johansson |
| Date | July 1980 |
| Classification | 2.07.0.00/31 (SWEDEN - GENERAL) |
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SUMMARY OF THE SWEDISH NUCLEAR POWER REFERENDUM On 23 March 1980, Sweden held an advisory referendum on nuclear power. The results of that referendum have been erroneously reported by some U.S. sources as showing approval for a general go-ahead for nuclear power. In fact, the meaning of that referendum is that there will be no more nuclear power plants built in Sweden and that within about 25 years no nuclear power plants will be operating in Sweden. The events leading to the Swedish decision to have a public referendum on the acceptability of nuclear power as a commercial energy source have been reported elsewhere (1) and are only briefly summarized here. Until the mid-1970s Swedish policy was directed toward large-scale adoption of nuclear energy. Various decisions taken between 1955 and 1965 had led to the establishment of a Swedish reactor industry during the 1960s and to a major nuclear investment program during the 1970s. By 1973, 11 reactors, totaling 8.4 gigawatts of power, had been approved and the utilities had planned for 25 GW by 1990. This would have made the Swedish nuclear program the largest in the world on a per capita basis. By the time of the nuclear referendum, there were six reactors in operation, an additional four reactors had been constructed and were ready for fuel loading, and two other reactors were under construction. (1) Copies of a Special Report on the Swedish nuclear situation from the November 1979 issue of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists are included in Appendix A. Several other reports are listed in the bibliography included as Appendix F.
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