Council of States wants to have new nuclear power plant examined as a “possible scenario”
Published: Wednesday, Mar 6th 2024, 12:11
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The Council of States is shaking up the 2017 ban on the construction of new nuclear power plants. On Wednesday, it adopted a postulate calling for the construction of new nuclear power plants to be examined as a "possible scenario" to secure the electricity supply.
The sentence is part of a postulate by FDP President Thierry Burkart, the individual points of which were adopted by a clear majority in the Council of States on Wednesday. The Aargau Council of States is primarily calling on the Federal Council to show what needs to be done so that Swiss nuclear power plants can go into long-term operation.
In the report requested by Burkart, the national government should also show how the electricity mix in Switzerland will develop and how many power generation plants will need to be built by 2030. This is so that the existing nuclear power plants can be decommissioned without any risk to the security of supply.
"The construction of new nuclear power plants should also be a possible scenario if the expansion of other low-emission capacities progresses too slowly," writes Burkart.
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