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Living at the end of the world, it is only natural that the newspaper agent in Umeå is selling New York Times from a fortnight ago. Since then, lots have happened. Russia has finally cut the gas supply, leaving Europeans terrified of the winter that lies ahead and the EU commission now wishing for a mild winter (the very thing, that until most recently, was feared as climate change).

I know, it is easy and not particularly productive to be ironic. Still, having been forced to listen to all these people telling me that renewables are so much cheaper than nuclear, there is some strange satisfaction in seeing reality proving them wrong, big time. However, for the millions who are directly affected by fuel poverty, there is no satisfaction in any of this. Sadly, I fear that, at least in Sweden, nuclear energy is the new high-speed trains, a topic that will be debated for decades, after which, “environmentalists” can use the very delay that they have caused as evidence that nuclear takes such a long time to build...