Sweden’s Nuclear Revival Questioned as Green Projects Falter (1)

Sweden’s nuclear revival risks being undermined as more companies pull the brakes on large power-hungry green projects designed to clean up some of the world’s dirtiest industries.

A policy U-turn that would entail a massive buildout of reactors, the first to come online in more than 40 years, now appears more unlikely as uncertainty grows over how much electricity the Nordic region’s biggest economy will actually need in the coming decades.

Ringhals nuclear power plant near Varberg, Sweden.

Photographer: Bjorn Larsson Rosvall/AFP/Getty Images

Tremendously costly and time consuming to build, the government’s plan has nuclear reactors becoming the main building blocks of the energy system way into the next century ...