{"id":32235,"date":"2015-08-05T04:00:32","date_gmt":"2015-08-05T08:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=32235"},"modified":"2020-07-13T10:53:18","modified_gmt":"2020-07-13T14:53:18","slug":"a-report-on-phasing-out-nuclear-power-in-sweden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2015\/08\/05\/a-report-on-phasing-out-nuclear-power-in-sweden\/","title":{"rendered":"A report on phasing out nuclear power in Sweden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It may make politicians and activists feel empowered and righteous, but it has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0301421515001731\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">negative aspects<\/a> that don&#8217;t seem to get the same level of attention as the &#8220;feel good&#8221; rhetoric does:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Nuclear power faces an uncertain future in Sweden. Major political parties, including the Green party of the coalition-government have recently strongly advocated for a policy to decommission the Swedish nuclear fleet prematurely. Here we examine the environmental, health and (to a lesser extent) economic impacts of implementing such a plan. The process has already been started through the early shutdown of the Barseb\u00e4ck plant. We estimate that the political decision to shut down Barseb\u00e4ck has resulted in ~2400 avoidable energy-production-related deaths and an increase in global CO2 emissions of 95 million tonnes to date (October 2014). The Swedish reactor fleet as a whole has reached just past its halfway point of production, and has a remaining potential production of up to 2100 TWh. The reactors have the potential of preventing 1.9\u20132.1 gigatonnes of future CO2-emissions if allowed to operate their full lifespans. The potential for future prevention of energy-related-deaths is 50,000\u201360,000. We estimate an 800 billion SEK (120 billion USD) lower-bound estimate for the lost tax revenue from an early phase-out policy. In sum, the evidence shows that implementing a \u2018nuclear-free\u2019 policy for Sweden (or countries in a similar situation) would constitute a highly retrograde step for climate, health and economic protection.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It may make politicians and activists feel empowered and righteous, but it has negative aspects that don&#8217;t seem to get the same level of attention as the &#8220;feel good&#8221; rhetoric does: Nuclear power faces an uncertain future in Sweden. Major political parties, including the Green party of the coalition-government have recently strongly advocated for a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,65,62,53,15],"tags":[640,497,692,1386,283],"class_list":["post-32235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-environment","category-europe","category-politics","category-technology","tag-alternativeenergy","tag-electricity","tag-externalities","tag-nuclearpower","tag-sweden"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-8nV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32235"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58753,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32235\/revisions\/58753"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}