Keystone-SDA
Switzerland must be able to build new nuclear power plants. As he already announced last year, the Federal Council confirmed its position on Wednesday in its message on the counter-project on the popular “Stop à Blackout” initiative.
(Keystone-ATS) The “electricity for everyone at all times (blackout) initiative requires that all forms of electricity production respecting the environment and the climate be authorized. The committee thus wishes to reopen the door to the atom, by focusing on new technologies that make power plants safer.
The Federal Council supports this goal to maintain a certain room for maneuver for energy supply in the future, he wrote in a press release. But it does not consider it necessary to modify the constitution.
The indirect government counter-project plans to repeal without replacing the two provisions relating to the prohibition to grant general authorizations for new nuclear power plants, supported by the people in 2017.
The counter-project does not consist in deciding to build new nuclear power plants, specifies the Federal Council. There is currently no project. The development of renewable electricity production must continue. Renewable energies are not incompatible with new nuclear power plants, added the press release.
