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Challenging to achieve the government's nuclear power goals

The Government's goal of two new reactors by 2035 is "reasonable but challenging" according to nuclear power coordinator Carl Berglöf. For it to work, a number of things need to fall into place, he says. The first is to get effective processes and financing that the stakeholders can accept.

» Updated: 25 September 2024, 22:05

» Published: 18 June 2024

Challenging to achieve the government's nuclear power goals
Photo: Magnus Lejhall/TT

The government's goal of two new reactors by 2035 is "reasonable but challenging" according to the nuclear power coordinator Carl Berglöf.

In order for it to work, several things need to fall into place, he says.

The first is to get effective processes and financing that the actors can accept.

It will require efficient coordination during the construction of new nuclear power in Sweden.

This is one of several recommendations that the government's national nuclear power coordinator Carl Berglöf proposes to get the plans moving.

In the near future, one needs to establish a programme organisation that can coordinate different projects, he says.

According to him, several projects are needed to build new nuclear power. Just one project will be too little and probably too expensive.

14 different investigations have been set up by the government since the roadmap towards new nuclear power in Sweden was adopted by the Tidö parties, with the goal of two new conventional reactors in operation by 2035.

The roadmap's goal is still possible. But challenging, of course, says Berglöf.

What are the biggest challenges?

The first is to get effective processes and financing that the actors can accept.

Several projects in Europe have both been delayed and overrun in terms of cost. According to Carl Berglöf, it is important that the industry learns from its mistakes.

Given that all these things fall into place, it is possible to fulfill the roadmap's goal by 2035, he says.

As for how great the interest is among different actors to build new nuclear power in Sweden, coordinator Carl Berglöf is a bit evasive.

I note an interest, he says, and also mentions that several municipalities have raised their hands and shown themselves willing to host reactors.

Things are bubbling away in different places.

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