"There is a great socio-economic benefit to doing this, especially with the power and electricity situation that prevails in southern Sweden. We are in dire need of electricity here and now and then we must consider all the options available at the table, says party secretary Mattias Bäckström Johansson (SD).

On page 13 of the Tidö agreement between the government parties and the Sweden Democrats, it says that it will investigate what it would take to restart Ringhals one and two. Since the agreement was signed, officials in the Cabinet Office have summoned experts and investigated the issue. But no agreement has still been reached in the negotiations, which are currently taking place in coordination in the Government Offices.

When Ebba Busch visited the parliamentary journalists this week, the forecast for a restart was not the one SD had hoped for:

- It looks pretty dark.

"Would take 6-7 years"

The Minister for Enterprise and Innovation is leaning, among other things, on the assessments of the main owner Vattenfall. In a debate article in Dagens Industri last Saturday, the company's head of electricity production in the Nordic region, Torbjörn Wahlborg, wrote that the second reactor is so damaged that a restart is practically impossible.

A restart of reactor 1 would take 6-7 years and only provide an operation over the same amount of time ahead. But a restart would also take personnel away from construction of new nuclear power, he claimed.

"We know that new nuclear power will be approved sooner or later, so the risk is lower, you also have a lifespan of at least 80 years if you build a full-scale new nuclear power plant," says Ebba Busch.

Mattias Bäckström Johansson answers:

"We will be able to have an opportunity to work on a restart and also, of course, look at the conditions for new power generation, which is not least about the legislative proposals that have been sent out for consultation and should be able to be adopted by the Riksdag next year.

Is this something that could bring down intergovernmental cooperation?

"I'm not going to comment on that, we haven't even landed in a decision yet, but of course it's important that we follow through on the parts we've agreed on in the Tidö agreement," he says.