This is not exactly true. Nearly 40% of Switzerland's electricity is 
already nuclear. The oldest nuclear power plant is at Mühleberg and is 
of similar design to the reactors at Fukushima. All the others are more 
modern. Federal Councillor Doris Leuthardt had a knee-jerk reaction and 
persuaded the Federal Council to issue an ordinance, just two days after 
Fukushima, proposing a rapid phase-out of the nuclear power stations, 
starting with Mühleberg and finishing by 2020. This has since been much 
revised and the safety standards of all the power stations have been 
revised by the federal authority charged with nuclear security. In 
particular, the Mühleberg power station has been upgraded and is still 
operational but will probably be phased down within the next couple of 
years as a normal end-of-life procedure. I believe that the other power 
stations will be operational until at least 2030. There is also a 
moratorium forbidding the construction of new nuclear power stations 
until 2030, but this is being very disputed in Parliament because 
Switzerland may suffer from power shortages unless new nuclear power 
stations enter into at least the planning stage in the near future.

I don't know what the rules are, but I think Germany also had a 
knee-jerk reaction and wishes to stop using nuclear energy.

On 26/08/2014 18:35, Ahne Oosterhof wrote:

> PS: Switzerland decided against nuclear power because of the Fukushima
> disaster!
>

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