26/05/2011 (Agence Europe) - Plan to phase out nuclear option in Switzerland. The Swiss Federal Council recommended to the Swiss parliament on 25 May that power plants reaching the end of their life should not be replaced by new nuclear plants with a view to phasing out the nuclear option by 2024. This would be “technically possible and also feasible from the economic point of view”, he states. Switzerland has five nuclear reactors, all in the German-speaking region and providing 40% of...