By the time Sweden votes in a September 20 general election, a programme to phase out nuclear power by 2010 was supposed to be underway. About 20 km from the Danish capital Copenhagen, across the Oresund strait, one of two reactors at Barseback was due to be shut down by July 1, the first phase in a government approved $1.15 billion programme. But a supreme administrative court ruling in May suspended the closure while the courts review the programme. This means it is uncertain when - or if - the closures will go ahead.The judicial review, at the request of Barseback's owner, private power company Sydkraft AB, has underlined divisions among Sweden's parties which could make it much harder to form a working government after the vote.