New questions raised about Switzerland’s energy strategy

Switzerland has three nuclear power plants that are showing their age. Following the nuclear accident in Japan, experts have been given about a year to come up with a new risk analysis, that will be used as the basis for political decisions on the future of nuclear energy. (SF/swissinfo.ch)

This content was published on March 18, 2011 - 16:49

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