The government’s goal is for new nuclear reactors to be built. But the question marks are many. Statliga Vattenfall has not made a decision while waiting for a preliminary study, while German Uniper – which co-owns today’s active Swedish nuclear power plants – has said no to building new ones.
According to Jan-Olof Jacke, there is still interest and investors.
— There are both industrial and institutional trustees. It will not be any single actor that alone builds a large-scale nuclear power plant, rather consortia, he says in a long interview with SvD.
However, he does not want to say who wants to invest.
— But the signals are still quite clear.
Jacke assesses in SvD that long-term political conditions are required for private actors to step forward. Concretely, clear “commercial and technical prerequisites as well as efficient and predictable permit processes” are needed.
— Unless those who are going to invest believe that it is possible to get profitability in new nuclear power, there will be no investments.