In news that signals a sea-change in European nuclear energy policy, Finland’s parliament has voted to build two additional nuclear reactors to augment the four they already operate. When this expansion is complete, nuclear power will provide half of Finland’s electricity. Following in Finland’s footsteps, their Nordic neighbor Sweden has announced that it will also build new reactors. The intention being to replace the reactors at their 10 existing nuclear power plants when the old ones are shut down. This reverses a 1980 referendum that called for them to be phased out entirely. Finland’s decision shows that there’s still a long-term case to be made for nuclear energy, even in the deeply green nations of Scandinavia.