Sweden is going all in on nuclear power.

The nation, led by centre-right coalition government and Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson is scrapping a renewable target of 100% and is instead going to build 10 new nuclear reactors. 

The government is passing legislation that currently limits the number of nuclear power plants and will spend billions on new capacity over the next three decades. 

“The climate transition requires a doubling of the electricity production in the coming 20 years,” Climate Minister Romina Pourmokhtari told a press conference this week.

Earlier this year Sweden joined 11 other European Union members to a group of nations called the Nuclear Alliance.

Sweden currently operates three nuclear power plants generating 30% of the nation’s energy needs.

“We need more electricity production, we need clean electricity and we need a stable energy system,” Finance Minister Elisabeth Svantesson told media earlier in the year.

Sweden was well on its way to being a major nuclear energy nation, however, anti-nuclear politics in the 20th Century meant Sweden shuts down 6 reactors, after a 1980 non-binding referendum to phase out nuclear power passed.

Pourmokhtari said Sweden would now build 10 new conventional reactors by 2045.

The Minister said renewable energy was not able to meet current needs.

Sweden may turn to France to help it achieve its goals.

“I am completely open to France being one of the countries that will ensure that Sweden has more nuclear power ,” Prime Minister Kristersson said during a meeting with French President Marcron this year.