Why is Vattenfall still investing in nuclear power?
Nuclear power constitutes an important part of the electricity supply in Sweden and Germany. Vattenfall has been working with nuclear power for a long time. We are one of Europe’s biggest nuclear operators. All kinds of energy have their advantages and disadvantages; there are no simple solutions. Society needs energy and our responsibility is to propose different alternatives. We think nuclear power fulfils the challenging demands on reliability, safety and sound economics. Today we are very close to establishing a well-proven solution for the safe storage of nuclear waste. The electricity from a nuclear power station has very low greenhouse gas emissions even if we examine the matter also from a life cycle perspective i.e. all effects from A to Z.
