Spain Signals Openness to Keeping Nuclear Power Plants Open

Spain is signaling for the first time that it’s open to reconsidering the shutdown of nuclear plants over the next decade amid a global revival of atomic energy.

While that’s not the plan agreed with nuclear plant operators, and it would be up to them to present concrete proposals, extensions are not ruled out, Environmental Transition Minister Sara Aagesen said in an interview.

“Nuclear energy will be present in our mix at least until 2035” but could go beyond that if companies propose extensions, which hasn’t happened yet, she said prior to an International Energy Agency summit on the ...