Sweden’s Climate minister Romina Pourmokhtari has announced plans to lift the country’s ban on uranium mining and make way for greater nuclear energy capacity.

The Swedish parliament has shown majority support for lifting the ban, Pourmokhtari said.

“The government is aiming at doubling electricity production in 20 years,” Pourmokhtari told The Times at the weekend.

“For our clean power system to function, a large part of this has to be dispatchable where nuclear power is the only non-fossil option. Nuclear power also has a reduced environmental footprint and requires limited resources in comparison with most energy sources.”