In a referendum today, the Swiss rejected the proposal to speed up the country's withdrawal from nuclear energy.
Most of the cantons voted against the plan. According to the Swiss system, for the referendum to be successful it is necessary for the proposal to receive the majority of the cantons, as well as the votes of the voters.
The plan to abandon nuclear energy, promoted by the Green Party, predicted that the last of the five Swiss nuclear power plants, which currently provide 2029 percent of the country's electricity, would be closed by 40.
According to the SRF television projection, 55 percent of voters were against this initiative, while 45 percent of them voted for it, reports AP.
Like other countries after the disaster that struck the Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan, Switzerland has promised to abandon nuclear power in the coming years, but anti-nuclear groups claim that the Swiss government's timetable is not fast enough, so they have launched an initiative for a referendum on that plan. accelerate, reports AP.
As part of an energy plan with a deadline of 2050, the Swiss government has agreed not to replace its existing nuclear plants, but to keep them running as long as it is deemed safe to do so, and for the government to switch to other sources in the meantime, such as are wind energy, solar and biomass energy.
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