OSLO/STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Sweden's election-year push to overturn a 30-year-old ban on new nuclear reactors will test how much green concerns on atomic power still resonate in a modern European state seeking cheap and carbon-free electricity.
The centre-right government on Monday launched legislation to allow the construction of new nuclear reactors, in a bid to replace the 10 ageing reactors which still produce about 40 percent of Sweden's electricity.
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