Remember when nuclear power was the big bogey man in Green Religion? That was before we knew about how EVIL carbon the building block of life really is. Now a new generation is fighting the new "devil" with an old one.

From Andrew Bolt:

Lesson learned, but swiftly forgotten

One green scare starts, another quietly dies:

NUCLEAR reactors are to be built in Sweden for the first time in nearly 30 years after the Government decided to abandon a decades-old commitment to phase out the power source.

Sweden joins a list of EU countries that have chosen nuclear energy under pressure to diversify from fossil fuels and meet tough climate-change targets for cutting CO2 emissions.

The dramatic policy switch showed that even in a country where popular opinion has been against nuclear power previously – and one with extensive hydroelectric resources – atomic generation is seen as part of an emissions-free energy strategy.

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