Berne, Switzerland - Swiss lawmakers approved a proposal Wednesday to phase out the use of nuclear energy, a move driven by the policy of the year election and skepticism on the use of atomic energy.
The majority of parliamentarians in the lower House of the Switzerland voted a progressive plan to close five reactors in the country by 2034.
The ballot passed the National Council with 101 votes in favour, 54 against and 36 abstentions. He had the support of all parties except the Democrats liberal pro-business and party of the nationalist Swiss people.
Switzerland nuclear plants currently generate almost 40 percent of the energy of the country. Hydropower provides the rest.
Opponents had warned that abandonment of the nuclear power plant would require a massive increase in conventional and alternative energy generation, raise costs of electricity for consumers, endanger the Switzerland efforts to reduce carbon emissions and make the country more dependent on foreign suppliers of natural gas.
Upper House of the Switzerland, the Council of States, must also approve the plan, then the Government must submit a detailed proposal on the release of nuclear power in the Parliament. The Cabinet is already for the decommissioning of reactors in the country between 2019 and 2034, after reaching a lifetime average of 50 years.
Efforts to abandon the nuclear in Switzerland were consolidated following the disaster at the plant of nuclear Fukushima Dai-ichi from the Japan, which was partially destroyed by an earthquake on March 11 and the tsunami.
Although the reactor of Switzerland are considered as safe and the country is not subject to major natural disasters, opinion polls showed most Swiss favoured close nuclear power plants. The issue has threatened to dominate political debate before the parliamentary elections of October 23.
Last month, demonstrators held the largest anti-nuclear protest in Switzerland in 25 years.
"Be constructive." We can do, "Minister of energy Doris Leuthard told legislators after the vote on Wednesday."
Suggestions to strengthen the power in Switzerland include buying more gas and the development of over of water, Sun and wind energy resources, more geothermal and other small scale power generating efforts.
Leuthard noted that many small Switzerland infrastructure projects are blocked at the local level. System of unique popular democracy in the country makes it easy for voters to stop wind farms and other electric Central alternatives built in their own backyard.
Monday, nearby to the North of the Switzerland Germany approved abolishing nuclear energy at 2022. The law now goes for the two houses of the German Parliament should vote on the plans of less than a month.
The Germany has 17 nuclear power plants, but closed for good, eight oldest after the disaster of Fukushima.
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