Sweden’s government will ask the Parliament to approve state loans worth $23.4 billion (220 billion Swedish crowns) to companies to build nuclear reactors in the Scandinavian country. Sweden plans to build two new nuclear reactors by 2035 in a hedge on low-carbon energy security, with 10 new reactors hoped for by 2045. The Swedish government moved to phase out nuclear power completely in 1980, but that decision was reversed by Parliament in 2010. Five years later, four aging reactors were shut down. Six of 12 reactors…
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