Sweden has shut this nuclear power plant as part of its voter-mandated shift to other sources of energy, especially wind.Sweden shuts nuclear plant in shift to wind
Swedish nuclear reactor has produced its last watt, shut down at the stroke of midnight Tuesday as part of a citizen-sanctioned shift to more environmentally friendly power.
The Barseback-2 nuclear reactor was Sweden's oldest, accounting for three percent of the country's total electricity output. Nuclear power provides 40 percent of Sweden's electricity.
The closure is part of nuclear phase-out program backed in a referendum in 1980. The first reactor at Barseback closed in 1999.
[Voters backed move in 1980, before global warming became factor]
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