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Dark clouds hang over nuclear town torpedoed by green energy

A nuclear reactor in southern Sweden could soon become scrap metal due to an unprecedented surge in renewable energy sending traditional power plants plunging into the red.
Photo: Carolyn Kaster/AP/Ritzau
Photo: Carolyn Kaster/AP/Ritzau
BY JESPER STARN, BLOOMBERG NEWS

In an eerily quiet nuclear reactor hall in southern Sweden, new copper and steel machinery stretching 50 meters and weighing hundreds of tons is just sitting idle.

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