[cdn-nucl-l] Fw: Fwd: Swedish energy authority says ok to scrap 2nd nuke

["Jerry Cuttler" <jerrycuttler@home.com>]

----- Original Message -----
From: Jim Muckerheide <jmuckerheide@delphi.com>
To: Multiple recipients of list ans-pie <ans-pie@nuke-ans.org>
Sent: Monday, August 07, 2000 3:09 PM
Subject: Re: Fwd: Swedish energy authority says ok to scrap 2nd nuke


Tim Roxey wrote:
>
> No Jim - Just a bit more real...

Right. Figure it's the same with gov't agencies who now want to tear down
dams. Lots of $$$, no dams to build.

SEE THE GRAPH NOTED BELOW, from the radsafe list:

I have kindly been allowed by Hans Pedersen-Dambo and Carl-Erik Fröberg
(Sweden) to post a picture on my website that graphically shows what
happened to the Swedish electricity balance when Barsebäck 1 was shut down:
Sweden switched from export to import of electricity:
http://www.geocities.com/bjorn_cedervall/

My initiative only,

Bjorn Cedervall   bcradsafers@hotmail.com
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> At 02:50 PM 08/07/2000, you wrote:
> >Like US "energy industry"?  "Shut (paid-for) plants that produce at
low-cost
> >for the public; Make $$$millions "decommissioning"; get $$$billions to
build
> >new sources; and even more $$$billions later to build new nukes.  And get
to
> >blame the public for being stupid!"
> >
> >Getting more cynical all the time :-)
> >
> >Regards, Jim
> >============
> >
> >"Michael C. Baker" wrote:
> > >
> > > >Swedish energy authority says ok to scrap 2nd nuke
> > > >
> > > >STOCKHOLM, Aug 7 (Reuters) - Sweden can afford to scrap a second
> > > >nuclear reactor next year without jeopardising electricity supply
> > > >through the now-deregulated energy market, the country's energy
> > > >authority says.
> > > >
> > > >A second reactor at Barseback in southern Sweden can be closed on
> > > >schedule in July 2001, the authority said in a statement to the
> > > >government released on Monday.
> > > >
> > > >The Swedish government is expected to announce the next step in its
> > > >programme to phase out nuclear power when it presents the autumn
fine-
> > > >tuning budget on September 20.
> > > >
> > > >``We see no problem in closing down the reactor. Besides, a shutdown
> > > >of Barseback 2 is central if the Swedish ecological targets are to be
> > > >met,'' the energy authority said.
> > > >
> > > >Deregulation of the Nordic power market means a country no longer
> > > >needs to be entirely self-sufficient as Sweden can import electricity
> > > >from Denmark or Norway at times of high demand.
> > > >
> > > >Swedes voted in a referendum in 1980 to phase out nuclear power,
> > > >fearing it might cause an environmental disaster, and switch instead
> > > >to cleaner forms of energy including hydropower, biomass and wind
> > > >power.
> > > >
> > > >Nuclear energy from the 11 remaining reactors including Barseback 2
> > > >at present meets 47 percent of Sweden's electricity requirements,
> > > >according to the energy authority. Hydroelectric schemes produce
> > > >another 47 percent and conventional power stations account for the
> > > >rest. Electricity produced by wind turbines represents only 0.3
> > > >percent of the total.
> > > >
> > > >Environmentalists have warned that deregulation of the Nordic power
> > > >market means, for instance, that Danish coal-burning power stations
> > > >can sell cheap power, but the hidden social cost is higher carbon
> > > >dioxide emissions.
>
> "Weinberg's Second Law"
>
> If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs,then the
> first woodpecker that came along would have destroyed civilization.