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Switzerland / As Country Debates New Nuclear, Forum Proposes Changes To Licensing Procedures

By David Dalton
5 September 2024

Process ‘takes years and generates unnecessary costs’

As Country Debates New Nuclear, Forum Proposes Changes To Licensing Procedures
Despite a long tradition of nuclear power production, Switzerland voted in 2017 to no longer allow construction of new nuclear power plants. Courtesy Khairul Abdulah/Creative Commons.
The Swiss government should consider changing its licensing procedure for planned new nuclear plants in an effort to save “years of painstaking planning without concrete results” and avoid unnecessary costs, the managing director of the Swiss Nuclear Forum has said.

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