Agenda 2000: Will it increase nuclear safety in Eastern Europe?

WISE NEWS COMMUNIQUE 493/494

June 19, 1998



The current enlargement process of the European Union offers opportunities to bring about the closure of the eastern european nuclear reactors, or at least offers possibilities to strengthen the pressure for closure of those reactors.
A majority of fifteen current EU members is de facto nuclear free or at least will become nuclear free in the near future. With the exception of France, none of the EU countries have an active program for the increase of nuclear power capacity. These countries should join power and discuss the end of EU support for nuclear energy (fission and fusion) not only in the CEE-countries but also in the west. In its 1997 Agenda 2000 the EU outlines its policy towards enlargement of the Union with 10 Central and East European countries. In this report we describe its dangerous and inconsitent policy on nuclear safety in the accession countries.


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CONTENTS


   Introduction
   Graph: Nuclear Power in EU 1958-1997

1. Agenda 2000: New Member-States and Nuclear Safety

2. EU's Nuclear Aid until now

3. Is enlargement an opportunity for Environmental Protection?

4. Agenda 2000: Increase in Nuclear Safety?
4.1 Non-upgradable units to be closed?
4.2 Whose nuclear safety standards?
4.2.1 Lack of a clear safety objective; K2/R4
4.2.2 Lack of a clear safety objective; Temelin
Table: The Commission`s Opinion of the State of the
Environment and Energy Sectors in Accession Countries with Nuclear Power Programs

5. Euratom
5.1 Euratom Supply Agency
5.2 Euratom safeguards
5.3 Euratom loans
5.4 Euratom Treaty already invalid?
Graph: Origins of natural uranium delivered to EU utilities 1997

6. What needs to be done?

   Sources

Appendixes

   Short history of the European Union

• European Union's Governing Bodies
• The budget
• Table: Financing of the 1996 general budget by Member States

   Nuclear Safety Account

• Complete failure of NSA; the Kozioduy example
  
• The Mochovce-Bohunice example
  
• Table: Contributions to the Nuclear Safety Account as of 31 december 1997 (in million ECU)

   The History of the Accession Progam

• The Accession Criteria
• Key Legislation in the Acquis on nuclear safety

   Western safety standards?

• The IAEA Nuclear Safety Convention

   About the safety of Soviet-designed nuclear reactor types

   Energy in Europe

• Development of the European Energy Policy
• Graph: Production and consumption of primary energy 1995

   The Coalition of Non-Nuclear Countries

• worthy of support

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WISE NEWS COMMUNIQUE 493/494 Written by: Peer de Rijk, Joop Boer and Dirk Bannink
Editor: Dirk Bannink
Layout: Ton Geurtsen
Thanks to: Hermine Linnebank, Susanne von Vangerow and Laka Foundation

With special thanks to: Anthony Froggatt of whom we used large parts of his research and documents. Froggatt is a consultant on Eastern European energy issues with a special interest in the implications of the enlargement of the European Union. He can be reached by email at a.froggatt@btinternet.com

and: The Dutch Haella Foundation for providing funds for the production of this issue.

issn: 0169-4022

Editing and Production WISE NC 494 extra:Dirk Bannink, Joop Boer. and Laka Foundation. With a contribution of NENIG

Reproduction of this material is encouraged. Please give credit when reprinting.

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