Swedish Vice Premier Ebba Busch announced yesterday that for the first time, new nuclear power capacity will be built in Sweden. The plan is for three SMRs at the location of the existing Ringshals power plant, with the combined capacity of 1,400 megawatts.
The Swedish move is an irony, given that 40 years ago, Sweden had as many as 12 operating nuclear plants and was planning more, with the active “political” organizing of the Fusion Energy Foundation(FEF) of Lyndon LaRouche helping to make this possible. But in 1986, networks later admitted to be connected to the East German STASI Secret Police, framed up the FEF in the media as having to do with the assassination of Swedish Prime Minister Olaf Palme. While the scandal was a tissue of fabrications, constant repetitions in the media shrank the FEF’s widespread magazine circulation and support, and the cause of a nuclear-powered Sweden went away with it.
In Germany, the directors of former nuclear power plants have written letters to Chancellor Friedrich Merz and Economic Minister Katherina Reiche, calling for the reactivation of nuclear power—technically still possible today. Infrastructure, skills of former employees of power plants are still available as well, the letter states.
