It would be extremely silly to stop using nuclear power. What we need is a passive safety system and type of reactor that cannot go critical and does not produce long lasting isotopes. Surprisingly, all of these are ready from the technology point of view, the only reason not to build them is financial. There are also plans to use the waste of older reactor models in the new gen IV type reactors and produce isotopes that last only few decades instead of few millenia. This would solve the biggest issue with older reactors, having a large amount of very active products that we need to store safely for a long time.<p><a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/s/602051/fail-safe-nuclear-power/" rel="nofollow">https://www.technologyreview.com/s/602051/fail-safe-nuclear-...</a><p><a href="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/crux/2015/01/16/thorium-future-nuclear-energy/" rel="nofollow">http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/crux/2015/01/16/thorium-fu...</a><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_IV_reactor#Advantages_and_disadvantages" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_IV_reactor#Advantag...</a>
Phew, i do know that some of their reactors are pretty old but imho nuclear overall is pretty safe and one of the best ways available still for producing vast amounts of electricity. Hopefully they will build new ones to phase out the old
The problem with the plan was that the government would have had to compensate the power plants for shutting down earlier than planned + pay to import (supposedly coal generated) power from neighboring countries.<p>The whole thing made no financial or ecological sense.<p>If you can read french, the official info (with both sides' opinion) is here: <a href="https://www.admin.ch/dam/gov/fr/Dokumentation/Abstimmungen/Erl%C3%A4uterung%20des%20Bundesrates/novembre2016/27-11-2016_FR_screen.pdf.download.pdf/27-11-2016_FR_screen.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://www.admin.ch/dam/gov/fr/Dokumentation/Abstimmungen/E...</a><p>And a german version is available here: <a href="https://www.admin.ch/dam/gov/de/Dokumentation/Abstimmungen/Novembre2016/27-11-2016_DE_screen.pdf.download.pdf/27-11-2016_DE_screen.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://www.admin.ch/dam/gov/de/Dokumentation/Abstimmungen/N...</a>