FILE PHOTO: Steam rises from the cooling tower of the nuclear power plant KKW Leibstadt of Swiss energy company Kernkraftwerk Leibstadt AG behind the hydropower plant Eglisau of Swiss Axpo enrergy company and the Rhine river in Rheinsfelden, Switzerland September 20, 2022. REUTERS/Arnd WIegmann/File Photo
GENEVA/ZURICH (Reuters) - Bringing new nuclear power stations online in Switzerland could take decades due to myriad political and financial hurdles, energy experts and politicians said, after the government announced plans to lift a ban on building new plants.
The Federal Council on Wednesday reversed a 2017 decision to exit nuclear power, in order to meet climate goals and respond to geopolitical uncertainties such as the Ukraine war, which has fed fears of outages in the country.
