{"id":1219704,"date":"2022-01-17T09:38:41","date_gmt":"2022-01-17T14:38:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1219704"},"modified":"2022-01-17T09:38:44","modified_gmt":"2022-01-17T14:38:44","slug":"sweden-launches-investigation-after-drones-spotted-by-nuclear-power-plants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sweden-launches-investigation-after-drones-spotted-by-nuclear-power-plants\/","title":{"rendered":"Sweden Launches Investigation After Drones Spotted by Nuclear Power Plants"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsweden-launches-investigation-after-drones-spotted-by-nuclear-power-plants%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1219704&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/01\/GettyImages-81185272-e1642422517394-640x335.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) \u2013 Swedish authorities are puzzled by reports that drones last week were seen hovering over two nuclear power plants on the country\u2019s Baltic Sea coast.<\/p>\n<p>Police said Sunday that preliminary investigations have been launched, adding the probes are being handled locally by investigators but they are coordinated nationally by the Swedish police\u00b4s national operational department. Police have no suspects.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Late Friday, police were alerted about the drones but lost track of the unmanned aircraft. Swedish media said the drones were large enough to withstand the wind that was blowing over the area.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Hans Liwang, an associate professor with the Swedish National Defense College, told Swedish broadcaster SVT that Sweden is not sufficiently prepared for this type of event.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have not really adapted our way of looking at this type of event to today\u00b4s reality,\u201d he said. \u201d We still think of the world as either at peace or at war.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sweden has three nuclear power stations: the Forsmark plant which sits north of Stockholm, Oscarshamn in the southeastern part of the country and Ringhals, the largest of them. The drone reports related to the first two.<\/p>\n<p>In 2019, the Ringhals 2 reactor in southwestern Sweden was permanently shut down with operators citing a lack of profitability and rising maintenance costs.<\/p>\n<p>On top of that, there are two decommissioned nuclear power facilities \u2013 Barseback, which sits on the narrow waterway between Sweden and Denmark and Agesta, south of the Swedish capital.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2014\/10\/31\/france-nuclear-sites-overflown-by-mystery-drones\/\">Read more<\/a>:&nbsp;Mystery Drones Buzz Nuclear Power Plants in France, Police Investigating (2014)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) \u2013 Swedish authorities are puzzled by reports that drones last week were seen hovering over two nuclear power plants on the country\u2019s Baltic Sea coast. 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