Currently, half of Sweden’s nuclear reactors are idle, but it’s not because of the 1980 referendum in which Swedish citizens asked for a nuclear phase out plan and a switch to renewable energies (f.ex. the state-owned Vattenfall utility is investing $1 billion in wind and wants to build Northern-Europe’s biggest wind farm), but because of a near meltdown. A former director of the Forsmark nuclear plant said:
“It was pure luck that there was not a meltdown. Since the electricity supply from the network didn’t work as it should have, it could have been a catastrophe.”
Needless to say, if the luck had not held, it would have been a serious matter for Northern Europe.
By the way, today, August 6, is Hiroshima Day.
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