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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Miranda Bryant in Stockholm

Sweden criticised over plan to build at least 10 new nuclear reactors

Sweden’s climate minister, Romina Pourmokhtari
Sweden’s climate minister, Romina Pourmokhtari, who has said electricity production needs to be doubled in order to meet climate goals. Photograph: Ahmad Gharabli/AFP/Getty Images

Environmental experts have criticised the Swedish government’s plan to build at least 10 nuclear reactors in the next 20 years, more than doubling the current number, saying it will be too expensive and will come too late to meet energy needs.

The climate minister, Romina Pourmokhtari, announced on Wednesday that in order to meet its climate goals Sweden needed to double electricity production in the next two decades.

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