According to Swiss Energy Minister Albert Rösti, existing nuclear power plant sites in Switzerland are suitable for the construction of any new power plants. “I could imagine us building another one in Mühleberg, for example,” said Rösti in an interview. + Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The head of the Federal Department of the Environment, Transport, Energy and Communications said in an interview with SonntagsBlick that a nuclear power plant would have a difficult time at a new location simply because of public acceptance. The population of Leibstadt in canton Aargau, where there is a nuclear power plant, “have lived from it for decades and view it positively, also in terms of jobs,” said the Energy Minister. He countered criticism from the neighboring German state of Baden-Württemberg. Germany had been dependent on Swiss electricity for three winters before the most recent one. “Our policy is therefore also of European interest,” said Rösti. He himself ...
