SWEDEN: Yes, Thanks to Nuclear Power

A key vote on energy policy heartens pronuke forces in Europe

For three months it seemed that everyone in Sweden was wearing a lapel button. Some sported badges reading ENERGY FOR SWEDEN. Others wore yellow buttons with a red sunburst proclaiming

ATOMIC POWER? NO, THANK YOU. Hardly a telephone pole or lamppost was left unpostered.

By referendum day last week, Swedes were so wearied by the campaign that Expressen, the nation's largest newspaper, editorialized: "The people are victims of overkill—let us vote and be done with it." So they did. When the 4.7...