M and KD get support for more nuclear power

Update 180515: the Text has been added to a correction

It was 2016 that the governing parties, the Conservatives, the Christian democrats and the Centre party, wrote in the current energiöverenskommelsen.

On Tuesday evening published a text on DN Debate where Ulf Kristersson (M) and Ebba Busch Thor (KD) announces that they want to see a new energiöverenskommelse. Among other things, they want to see the possibilities to operate the reactors, Ringhals 1 and 2 on. They also want to Sweden and developing a roadmap for moving towards fourth-generation nuclear power.

the Conservatives party leader Ulf Kristersson said that the current energiöverenskommelsen is outdated and needs to be updated. A crucial question is about the energy in Sweden shall be ”fossil-free” and not just ”renewable”.

the DN Debate: ”New nuclear central in new energiöverenskommelse”

KD-leader Ebba Busch Thor believes that it is in the industry and the transport sector as the major challenges.

" We have an industry that runs 24 hours a day all year round. Then you can't rely on weather-dependent energy sources, " says Busch Thor.

over M and KD's proposal.

– Finally, we liberals have alone defended nuclear power as a climate-smart manner, I welcome this reversal from M and KD. The ambition is to find a new agreement, than the 2016. I did not understand why M and KD went into the energiöverenskommelsen, " says Jan Björklund, adding that he now hopes for a new and broader energiöverenskommelse.

to M and KD's new proposal for the benefit of nuclear power.

– It is the proposal that is in line with the reservation that we had in the energikonventionen. We pointed to the future and to snävade in the fossil-fuel-free solutions by to say that there should be renewable. It is gratifying, we are prepared to participate in constructive talks, says member of parliament, Mattias Bäckström and Johansson (SD).

Ulf Kristersson said that the new proposals about nuclear power is not a threat to energiöverenskommelsen.

" We want to take out the questions to the conversations that they need to act on. An agreement has only a value if it creates the long-term vision that they promise.

"Our intention is not to deflate the current energiöverenskommelsen," says Ulf Kristersson.

Correction: In an earlier version of the text Ebba Busch Thor wrong partibeteckning.