Russia Seems to Love Getting Beaten – Russian Losses in Ukraine

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Russian losses in their illegal war against Ukraine remain at a satisfactory level.

  • 1420 KIA
  • 2 Tanks
  • 3 AFVs
  • 100 Artillery systems
  • 1 MLRS
  • 1 Defense systems
  • 1924 UAVs
  • 403 Vehicles & Fuel tanks
  • 2 Special equipment

If you are planning to go out and demonstrate today, then demonstrate for Ukraine and against Russia.

Russia’s activities

You will read about them further down in the comments, as they have not yet been released by the General Staff.

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121 thoughts on “Russia Seems to Love Getting Beaten – Russian Losses in Ukraine”

  1. 205

    A KWiA/attack ratio in Pokrovsk of just over 4 in the 22 report. Has often been around 2: 66 Killed, 19 Wounded in action after 20 attacks. Applied to the day’s attacks: 376 KWiA localized, and the rest, 1,044 KWiA unlocalized, makes a ratio of 1044/44=24 KWiA per unlocalized attack, as yesterday and just within the range previously observed. With a lower bottom between peaks than before, it looks like the offensive is starting to pack up. It’s becoming a heavy burden with all the 200-sacks.

    N Slobozhansky-Kursk 3
    S Slobozhansky 7
    Kupyansk 5
    Lyman 6
    Slovyansk 3↘️
    Kramatorsk 0
    Kostjantynivka 16💥↘️
    Pokrovsk 26💥💥↘️
    Oleksandrivskij 2↘️
    Huliaipole 19💥↘️
    Orikhivsk 2
    Prydniprovskij/Dnipro 5↗️

    Localized 94↘️
    Unlocalized 44↘️
    Total 138↗️
    Ratio unloc/loc 0.47↗️

    • Pokrovsk 26💥💥↘️
    • Huliaipole 19💥↘️
  2. 205

    Off-topic, domestic 🇸🇪
    Up early and demonstrating? Red-green flags flying high?

    Maybe only Wilderäng’s green? At least it’s not for Russia, and the flag is not dirty.

    1. MXT

      May Day has long been primarily a day to nurse your hangover and to clear your lungs after the smoke from all the bonfires.

      At the same time, one should not be completely ignorant of history either. The struggle for workers’ rights to reasonable conditions was once crucial for a decent society, but few understand that today when they enjoy the results of that struggle and take everything for granted.

       

  3. 205

    Russia’s Emergency Situations Ministry claimed on April 29 that it had finally extinguished the fires in Tuapse caused by the wave of strikes. But just a day later, a fresh attack reignited the blaze at the facility.

    Russia’s battered Tuapse oil refinery hit by Ukrainian drones for 4th time, reigniting fires. The facility on the Black Sea Coast previously hit three times in two weeks, causing heavy damage to the refinery and triggering a state of emergency in the city.

    Photos and videos of a fourth attack on the refinery and marine terminal emerged on social media in the early hours of May 1, with residents reporting explosions in the area, according to the Telegram monitoring channel Exilenova-Plus.

     

    — Kyiv Independent, 1 maj 2026

     

    1. Pehr

      Ukraine’s strategy obviously works, unlike Russia’s air defense.
      Back to square one for the rescue service in Tuapse.
      They probably aren’t getting their salaries either.
      They might throw in the towel soon.

    1. 205

      Interesting. From the Russian side, heavily exaggerated territorial gains, with most of the covered areas in January and virtually none in April, considering changes in both directions in the Pokrovsk and Siviersk regions respectively. With losses that must well exceed 30,000. The losses are difficult for Russia only when seen as exceeding new recruitments, and the report suggests just that.

      Another interesting thing regarding Krasnov: “Ukraine’s drone wall strategy continues to work, and Russia’s loss of Starlink and Telegram disruptions continue to have a significant impact.”

      “Krasnov” had at least cut Ukraine off from the service as well? Or maybe one should not wake a sleeping bear? 🐻 

      1. Pehr

        Regarding Starlink, I also believe one should not forget the stock market listing. Starlink in the hands of the Russians is not good for the stock.

  9. Jan W

    Yesterday, an X was linked showing that the USA’s export of oil plus products had increased significantly in the latest (reported) week. That is correct. Below is a link to data from the EIA (the most reliable source).

    But more interesting is probably the net export, which is not even half of the gross export. However, this also increases as much or rather more than the gross counterpart. Good, right!?

    https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/pet_move_wkly_dc_NUS-Z00_mbblpd_w.htm

    Well, production is basically flat. Almost exactly at the figure Maggan stated (13.5 mmbpd). So the increase in net export last week probably cannot be sustainable as they say nowadays.

    https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/pet_sum_sndw_dcus_nus_w.htm

  13. johan No.1

    I heard that we couldn’t restart because moving parts had bent when they were stationary over time.

    I’m wondering if that’s really true since several countries have done it.

     

    1. Jan W

      I have also heard other explanations. Let us assume that it is true that it is not possible. Those who say this sound convincing. In that case, measures have been taken that have made it impossible (intended to make it impossible?) to restart. Compare Japanese reactors that were shut down after Fukushima (2011) and some shut down reactor in Three Mile Island (1979) which is supposed to be restarted.

      The shutdown must be the greatest money-waster of all time in Sweden. Why is no one held accountable when we are now talking about building new ones? One of a similar size to Ringhals is estimated to cost about 100GSEK.

      1. N Eklund

        Is one of the others that weak acid has been kept in pipes that are embedded? The acid is supposed to reduce radioactivity but destroys the pipes enough so that they cannot withstand an inspection. That is the only reason I have heard.

         

        When “we” shut down the reactors there around 2018-2019 was probably the only time I have heard S praise the market. And the opposition slept until it was too late, then they woke up…

            1. johan No.1

              Yes ok, I could imagine that for the Green Party and then the guillotine for everyone else 👍

              After all, one should be allowed to choose the most environmentally friendly death if one wants to, I think.

          2. Bal

            It will now become a reality this summer. However, I wonder if it also applies retroactively? As well as how reports are followed up and how it is handled in courts?

            1. johan No.1

              This will become Lawfare directly from this – before September, Ebba, Ulf, and Jimmie will have 70,000 reports to deal with and will bitterly regret that they agreed to this.

      2. johan No.1

        Well – at least 4 of them could have been operated for another 40-60 years.

        2 might have been justified, one of which could have continued for a while longer.

        Now hundreds of billions in demolition costs are added.

        and we are going to build SMR

        and we have an energy crisis.

        we get the politicians we deserve

        1. Proxima

          I voted for option 2 in the referendum. After all, it was the year after Harrisburg. The reason was that if we found a safer energy source, that would be preferable. But the electricity-intensive Swedish industry demanded resources. Among other things, we had the world’s second largest newsprint mill nearby, and it consumed almost as much electricity as the resident city in the same county. This was my main standpoint at the time and hasn’t really changed since.
          So I am not opposed to new nuclear power together with other energy sources. I have a lot of faith in wave power and tidal power.

          1. Proxima

            Addition: The mill no longer exists, unfortunately. But that is due to other forces. Market forces. We no longer read news in newspapers.

    2. CB500four

      On large turbines, they probably have so-called “turning gear” that rotates them slowly when they are stationary. This is especially important after a shutdown when they are hot. Then it is certainly possible to support them for longer stops. There are often spare rotors on site as well if needed.

      I can imagine that corrosion can be a bigger problem if the cooling systems etc. have been emptied after the shutdown, as oxygen enters the systems.

      It is probably possible to restart, but at a great cost. It would probably be best to invest in long-term maintenance and continue operating as in Finland.

      It is often like that in politics, that those who decide do not have sufficient knowledge about what they are deciding on. They should get a good briefing for and against before being allowed to make decisions.

       

      1. johan No.1

        Could these turning gears be replaced at a reasonable cost?

        A fairly important detail

        yes, those were probably the ones mentioned when I spoke with the person.

        1. CB500four

          The turning gear is just a small electric motor with a gear that rotates the large turbine-generator shaft when it is stationary, so it is not difficult to replace.

          The generator and turbine shaft, on the other hand, can be tens of meters long (Olkiluoto 3, 68m) and with a rotor weighing a few hundred tons (OL3, 250t and 17m long). It is supported by 4 bearings and spins at 1500rpm, so it must be straight and balanced.

  15. johan No.1

    The new raff attacks are more like 100% combated than a distillation tower.

    Must be magnitudes heavier and more robots/drones being used.

    Putin has mentioned this for the first time

    and Trump tried to stop UA recently.

    This really stings 🤣🤣🤣✊✊

  16. johan No.1

    Ok as CB writes – maybe it is so that other countries ran their reactors in some kind of maintenance mode preventively but we in Sweden just shut them down because the political decision was formulated that way?

    1. N Eklund

      The Social Democrats say that it was the market that shut down the latest nuclear power. And the market probably thought that the future is spelled gasoline, diesel, and green winters, so a restart will not be relevant.

      2. johan No.1

        Capacity charges earmarked for nuclear power combined with much stricter safety regulations put the final nail in the coffin.

        When that was done, the same was done with hydropower in the form of stricter regulations – why then, the whole of Sweden should ask itself.

        1. CB500four

          Well, there is probably something strange when nuclear power suddenly became the worst of all, and then when it was shut down it was suddenly hydropower that was the culprit, water permits were to be reconsidered and watercourses restored.

          The next thing is probably that humans’ right to eat and breathe should be reconsidered.

          1. Flurrevuppen

            Strange absence in public service of scrutiny of the Nietzschean green fascism… or… right.. it is their mouthpiece… didn’t think of that

  17. johan No.1

    Yes, sorry for the OT but many countries can restart.

    However, not Sweden.

    I think that is important in the energy crisis and global conflict.

    That is actually worth diving into and quite on topic 😀

    1. CB500four

      There will probably be more of those, and that is certainly good. Precisely to provide supplements when needed, and charge when there is a surplus. Although the amount of batteries would have to be enormous to have any significance during, for example, a “dark doldrums”.

      I read somewhere, maybe here on the blog, that China is investing in BESS (Battery Energy Storage System) now that electric car sales have leveled off and there is a surplus of batteries.

       

    3. N Eklund

      For storage at a fixed location on land, one should be able to develop something cheap but that takes up quite a lot of space? That is, with lower energy density. 

      1. CB500four

        Pumped storage power plants are good, but they are large investments. There were some earlier in Sweden but were taken out of use at some point for some unfathomable reason, but now they are on the rise again, including in Juktan.

      2. johan No.1

        Yes exactly – have long had my eyes on lithium-ion which is probably just a huge bucket of some kind of water?

        Read somewhere that China is working on a battery made entirely of metal.

        They also entertain themselves by using excess electricity to lift a weight that then slides down during the night.

        There must be more smart ideas.

        The only thing that is unwise is trying to build large batteries with rare earth metals.

        In Sweden, they would have pumping in old closed mine shafts, there was some company that promised 100% return on investment within six weeks, I invested my entire pension immediately.

        1. CB500four

          Storing heat in sand probably works quite well, as it is a large mass.

          We also have district heating with nuclear power underway, low pressure and temperature, simpler technology. Steady Energy 

          A friend who works with nuclear power was a bit skeptical, the efficiency is probably higher at higher temperatures. However, I believe the enrichment level of the uranium can be lower if you only want to produce heat.

          1. Jan W

            There have been discussions, once upon a time, about district heating from Forsmark. Without any direct knowledge, it sounds like a good idea.

  23. johan No.1

    Good news, I’m back at work which means I can sit and write posts full-time again 👍

    Tribute songs and poems can be posted in the thread now that Eriksgatan is starting up, MXT has made extra server space for the influx. The Peruvians had some procession in Lima for me with placards with photos in cloak and papal hat, you don’t need to go quite that far but it’s a bit touching how lively they are over there.

    It wasn’t planned to have a nuclear power discussion today but since MXT is hungover and screaming in the sofa, I apparently got the whole football field to myself – suddenly it happens but it will probably take quite a few jugs of fine mash for him to be knocked out.

    I don’t dare go so far as to criticize Biden because then he’ll probably crawl up to the computer on pure adrenaline and give the keyboard a beating.

    Several posts in the works but the day started with the employer not wanting to pay my travel expenses because some id1ot in finance got the idea that I had included all my private trips during vacation which, for once, I did not do, but it was resolved in the end.

    Lucky in misfortune that I only managed to submit the trips and not other expenses so now I have time to remove four hotel nights so they don’t get their suspicions about my questionable conduct confirmed.

    No point in starting the rock concert with a post on a Saturday so on Monday we’ll run the first one which will be a text about the world’s best infantry which are not the US Marines because Fallujah is a post hoc construction.

    More good news if you need it this fantastic sunny morning in the Caribbean – the project is very soon underway which means I have two more years to sit and write full-time. That project in Kuwait went quiet, don’t know if Iran got a hit on the consultant’s weekly meeting maybe but they probably didn’t expect a full war when the job offer came.

    The upside of that is of course that when the smoke clears the demand for marine construction in MENA will rise exponentially so it’s not entirely unlikely that it will be a few years there – have mail-bombed the Iranian IRGC with target coordinates to ports in places I’d like to work in. Been on Google checking hotels, restaurants and swimming opportunities paired with large ports in the vicinity that look perfectly intact. I chose IRGC because they seem the most unpredictable and ready for anything, I have good hopes that I will succeed in creating future job opportunities.

    That bastard Trump has of course cooked up the next phase with Putin, they had some coordination the other day for this summer’s stabs in the back of Europe so there will definitely be more unless Putin gets deposed first.

    We are probably heading towards the most critical phase of this war for Europe, Ukraine seems to be doing great and it would of course be excellent if Russian collapse happens before Russian escalation but they run in parallel and Ukraine is doing the best they can.

    Then there’s too much disinformation also about the Ukraine war not just USA/Trump/Iran/finance so it’s probably time to return to strict source criticism. I’ve guessed that it’s Russian opposition who are now blowing up Russian setbacks but in the Ukraine war we must stick to the truth as far as possible.

    Des Mogentum Asus as the old Romans wisely said.

    1. CB500four

      Am also probably afraid that they have cooked something up.

      It has now been written that someone close to Trump has said that Trump no longer cares what anyone thinks of him, he has become obsessed with being remembered as a leader who changed the world, like Alexander the Great and Napoleon.

      One can certainly understand that he becomes indifferent to all criticism, since it is almost only criticism he receives. However, he is a media person who gladly stands in the spotlight and throws out angry comments and trash left and right. As the saying goes, those who enter the game must endure the game.

      And he certainly seems to be changing the world, but not for the better, as far as I can see.

      1. johan No.1

        I am weighing whether a sensible opposition against him can be formed in the USA or not.

        I believe he has done like Putin and Xi and gotten rid of those who protested already.

        He will probably completely ignore the midterm elections if they turn out unfavorable.

        What will HOPEFULLY bring him down is when Ukraine breaks the backs of the Russian bastards – hopefully there will be enough ripple effects from that, we’re keeping our fingers crossed.

        The USA and Trump have only bad plans for Europe and Ukraine.

        MENA we will see – I think it looks like the opportunity is starting to slip out of the hands of the USA and Israel here BUT there should be a huge blow coming from the USA so it is definitely too early to judge that match.

        This fall WE SHOULD get a serious shake-up in the markets and as the USA has been trying, they are desperately positioning themselves as best they can.

        China has sky-high problems but we don’t know everything because they are hiding it and we in Europe also have problems – I think it’s still a bit open who will be hit the hardest.

        Historically, the USA has been too strong to be knocked out.

        In 2008 the EU was hit very hard but today we are better equipped, BUT we have also destroyed a lot for ourselves with all our 100% imports in most things and too many draining on the systems that have come.

        China’s real estate bubble continues to deflate and less trade will hit them like a slap from Dengamle’s nemesis neighbor lady. 

        1. N Eklund

          For a while, I thought they wanted to attract talent from Europe. Make it feel unsafe in Europe and come work in the USA -> raise GDP and lower the national debt as a share of GDP. Now I’m almost starting to wonder if they want to create a crisis and move manufacturing industry from Europe to the USA where, for example, gas prices are significantly lower.

          He said today that he would raise tariffs on cars and trucks from the EU, but that they would be very welcome to produce the cars in the USA.

  24. johan No.1

    Good input from CB500 and fedtmule – I think it’s worth discussing a bit more why we haven’t restarted any reactors, but I definitely have my suspicions.

    Politically, the opposition wants to shut them down, but then you have “never miss a good crisis” and that for smaller cash flows, restarting nuclear power so that new builds aren’t needed would be unfortunate for the M focus group.

  25. Jan W

    I have also read about the weak acid in the pipes. It sounded credible when I read it. I have also heard about the bent shaft. In any case, Japan seems to be able to restart reactors that have not been used for about 15 years. Not to mention Three Mile Island, in that case 40+ years.

    1. Proxima

      When Sweden shuts down something, no matter what it is, it does so decisively. When Svenska Varv closed Arendalsvarvet, they filled the docks with blasted rock so that no one then or in the future would think of building ships there. The last ship was the icebreaker Oden. They have probably done something similar in Ringhals. These will never be restarted. Period!

    3. fedtmule

      Vattenfall, Eon, and Uniper saw/see an inherent value in a supply shortage on the production side as well as the possibility

      to obtain subsidies for
      building wind power as something that was economically advantageous in the short term.
      The Confederation of Swedish Enterprise acted too late
      and too little to put such pressure
      on politics so that a moratorium could have been achieved for the phase-out of the 2 most recently shut down reactors.
      According to the then prevailing consensus in parts of politics and in large parts of the media, more was produced in Sweden than we need for…….the moment…
      Short-sighted, said Bill…reckless, said Bull..
      GOOD LORD, said the electricity consumers a few years later…..

      1. johan No.1

        Germany is increasingly building electricity production but is getting less electricity in withdrawals, I saw on some graph.

        The intermittent grid MUST be supplemented with SMR and then batteries, those lithium-ion batteries are probably not so bad.

        Those who scream for more wind power and solar power only right now are dangerous.

  26. Kaitsetahe

    FridayDrunk(TM)… You’ll have to do it yourselves and manage without me!

    I’m busy clearing up in the garden, had a couple of hours of close combat with the currant bushes which were mostly a thicket of dead sticks… but now it’s actually starting to look decent.
    I’m going to nail up some supporting slats around the bushes and then remove the rest of all the debris I’ve cleared away.

    While I’m working in the garden, my little dog wants me to play with him… It’s not easy being either a homeowner or a dog owner!

    Hugs to you all!

    1. johan No.1

      MXT would hug you if he weren’t lying knocked out under the sofa in a sea of empty cans with Dengamle wrapped around his legs, but on his behalf, I’m sending a hug back.

      Sounds like you have an absolutely brilliant Friday Kaitsetahe ✊✊

    2. CB500four

      You have to take advantage when the weather is nice, and the currant bushes look so nice after a bit of clearing. Cut one of the aronia hedges with the brush cutter last spring, and it’s doing well.

      This year I think the hanging rowans will be removed; they’re starting to get a bit too overgrown after almost 20 years.

      And then there will probably be some painting of the fence and oiling of the terrace, as usual.

    1. Proxima

      Lovely time now. Here in the south, the masonite bushes have started to bloom. Beautiful leaves that have the same color as the bird cherry flowers but brown. Perennial like horseradish.🪾

  28. N Eklund

    OT: Gas turbines

    There was talk about nuclear power further up and I found this about gas turbines. It should be added that nuclear power plants use steam turbines which operate at significantly lower temperatures and are therefore cheaper to build. Nice too that the Chinese are lagging behind.

    Gaurab Chakrabarti on X:

    “You cannot buy a new gas turbine until 2030. Order books at GE, Siemens, and Mitsubishi stretch to 2029. Turbine prices have nearly tripled since 2019. Every AI data center needs power and every gas plant needs a turbine. And every turbine has one part that bottlenecks the entire industry: The blade. It has to survive in gas 500°C above the melting point of the metal it’s made from and spin at up to 20,000 RPM under 10,000 g of centrifugal force. Each blade is grown as a single crystal of nickel superalloy, pulled through a vacuum furnace at 3 mm per minute. A set of blades costs $600,000 and takes 90 weeks to grow. The same metallurgy powers modern jet engines. Only 3 companies on Earth can build one. China spent $42 billion trying to catch up. They bought a Russian fighter engine, took it apart, and copied every part. Their copy ran 30 hours between overhauls versus 400 for the original. Modern Western engines run 4,000. You can reverse engineer the shape of a turbine blade. You cannot reverse engineer 60 years of metallurgy.”

     

    1. johan No.1

      I saw that too, exciting times and waiting for the clumsy China not even to be able to reverse-engineer 🤣🤣🤣

      Completely unrelated, if you bought shares in Sandisk a year ago, they have gone up 4000% until today.

      I thought they collapsed when we stopped using memory cards in cameras?

    2. CB500four

      Wärtsilä’s gas engines are selling like hotcakes to American data centers.

      Engine power plant solutions – Wärtsilä Energy

      Things are moving fast now, the USA is trying to strengthen its monopoly on AI, Europe is not at all on track. 

      It probably feels a bit like flooring the gas pedal, but in the end, it will be the companies that survive and find a way to make money from it.

  29. johan No.1

    One thing I never understand about hydropower.

    The ancient Romans already ran several in a row, and China does it.

    In Sweden, now that we are not allowed to open new hydropower plants to save the fish, why don’t we put five in a row?

    That would mean the same volume of water is released but generates electricity five times instead of once?

    1. N Eklund

      You as an engineer should be able to count on that? In the turbine, the water slows down, to regain momentum it needs a fall so that gravity can accelerate the water.

      Then the question is whether you need another dam before the next turbine? Otherwise, it mostly becomes an amplification (with delay) of existing production. But yes, you should be able to do more, the question is if it mostly ends up being lots of small turbines that “just create a lot of jobs” and complicate the system.

      1. johan No.1

        Well, you do need a couple of dams in a row of course, that’s how China does it.

        Proxima seems to have the answer maybe?

        When they were built, it probably wasn’t such a big problem, they just put them up where it was easiest.

        Now when you could do something like that, it probably becomes too difficult.

        Politics has been trying to shut down a maximum of 1.5 TWH for a while now, so they are going in the other direction.

    3. CB500four

      They are indeed in a row, but they still have to be at a certain distance from each other to get a fall height, for example look at this page, and you will see that there are 34 power plants in the Dalälven river. vattenkraft.info – Hydropower in Sweden

      I remember we were at a power plant in southern Norrland where the regulation amplitude was only 5cm, so the power plants above and below were regulated simultaneously. When we were there testing, it so happened that water overflowed the crest gates at the downstream power plant. It was different up in Lapland, the first power plant in the Little Lule River, where the water level varied 36m from the end of the snowmelt to the next winter before the snowmelt started again. 

  30. N Eklund

    Ukraine Battle Map on X:

    “Ukraine struck 2x Su-57 stealth fighters and 1x Su-34 at Shagol airfield ~1,700km from Ukraine One Su-57 was likely destroyed, while the 2nd Su-57 and a Su-34 may have been damaged or destroyed ~25 Su-57s were built, it could be the 1st loss of a 5th-generation jet in combat”

    1. N Eklund

      WarTranslated on X:

      “The General Staff of Ukraine has confirmed strikes on Su-57 and Su-34 aircraft. On April 25, at the Shagol airfield in the Chelyabinsk region of the Russian Federation, soldiers of the AFU Unmanned Systems Forces struck several Su-57 fighters and a Su-34 fighter-bomber. The targets were located approximately 1,700 km from the state border of Ukraine.”

  31. Proxima

    It was not bad. The Su-57 is probably the best Russia has? And what a distance. Almost in Yekaterinburg if I saw the map correctly. Now Ukraine is dangerous.

  32. johan No.1

    It is an interesting new feeling not to be chased by MXT and Dengamle so much that you hardly dare to write anything – this is how Solzhenitsyn must have felt when he escaped from the Gulag.

    Maybe I should write a book – the prisoner at johanno1.se?

    Excellent tone in the thread and entirely my fault that it turned into a discussion about electricity production, I will do five squats as punishment.

    2. 205

      You can almost hear the frustration from MXT about you wandering freely around him. MXT, who is stuck under the sofa and can’t get past The Old One who is lying there sleeping off the effects of a serious reset. 

  33. MXT


    It can be noted that there isn’t much Ukraine when you take a day off.


    Instead, it becomes energy policy and rehashing of the decommissioned nuclear power, and of course also domestic politics because everything is obviously the fault of the left and the Green Party. It feels like it’s actually the latter that is driving it.. 😄


    Even though Vattenfall made the economic assessment that continued operation was not economically justifiable since refurbishment and adaptation to new regulations would cost far too much, it was still the Green Party and the Social Democrats’ fault “because they had obviously rigged the system that way.” There is some truth in that regarding the capacity tax, but it was rather just one of several factors.


    When the decision to shut down was made, it simply means that you are not allowed to continue operating. Trying to restart would mean a completely new licensing process, and since they had also started dismantling, selling off equipment, etc., refurbishment would cost significantly more than when the decision to shut down was made.


    The plants were already running overtime. If the decision had not been to shut down but only to mothball them, it would have been another matter, but then you would still have had to keep staff, been forced to continue maintenance, etc., so you would have had operating costs for something you would never know if it would be useful in the future, and even if they had been mothballed, refurbishment would still have been required.


    It’s just a matter of forgetting the old plants and realizing that the only right thing is to build new and more modern, efficient plants.


    Of course, in hindsight, it may have been a mistake to shut them down in the first place; they could have operated for many more years, but with the electricity prices we had then, the question is whether it really would have been sensible given their age, since, as mentioned, extensive refurbishment and maintenance would have been required.


    It is often the case that old, fully functional buildings are demolished to make way for new ones, simply because it is more efficient than maintaining or renovating.


    Even if it had been chosen to continue operating, it would soon have been time to shut them down anyway. You can’t patch and fix forever.


    If there had been economic incentives earlier, someone would already have built new nuclear power, but it is an enormous investment and an enormous risk.


    Who wants to invest 50 billion on a nuclear power plant, then maybe the Sweden Democrats get an outright majority and suddenly we have to buy cheap gas, oil, and coal from Russia instead. Then the owners are left holding the bag when they try to sell expensive nuclear power. Or the opposite: the Left Party and the Green Party come to power and demand shutdown.


    That is why SMR is interesting since the investments and risks become lower, even if cost efficiency also becomes a bit worse. Wind power is absolutely the cheapest, and nuclear power is the most expensive. We can manage with only nuclear power, but we cannot manage with only wind power. But if we only had nuclear power, electricity prices would be significantly higher, but that seems to be overlooked by everyone. So I repeat that the mix we have in Sweden is good, but for stability and increased production, it is starting to be time to add nuclear power, but not by trying to restart old decommissioned plants.


    Continue rehashing what has been if it entertains you (and it really seems to since the topic keeps coming up so often).


    Personally, I find it more interesting to look forward.

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