Friends of the Earth Europe’s Nuclear Campaigner, Mark Johnston said:
"E.U. support for building dangerous reactors is wrong and should stop. It is crazy to increase the risk of another disaster by aiding a new power plant that is the same type as Chernobyl.
"This scandal casts grave doubt over the credibility of the Commission’s claim to be acting in the interests of atomic safety. It is becoming clear that the real motive is more sinister, to save a dying nuclear industry at any cost. The Commission cannot be trusted with nuclear safety when it also retains a duty to promote nuclear.
"Euratom loans and the Euratom Treaty itself are out of date, biased and undemocratic. They should both be scrapped. Friends of the Earth is calling the European Convention to support abolition of Euratom under the new E.U. constitution."
Friends of the Earth Europe
Further information is available from: http://www.foeeurope.org/activities/Nuclear/nuclear.htm
Please also read: "High court rules against restarting Monju nuclear reactor"
Tuesday, January 28, 2003
http://www.japantoday.com/e/?content=news&cat=1&id=247259
and
"New Chair of Key Nuclear Review Board Prompts Concerns About Objectivity on Yucca": Statement of Lisa Gue, Senior Energy Analyst, Public Citizen’s Critical Mass Energy and Environment Program;
http://www.citizen.org/pressroom/release.cfm?ID=1315
NOTES:
(1) The document is a so-called "Non-paper" that was distributed by the Commission to Member States following questioning at a meeting on the 10 December 2002 regarding the proposal to increase the Euratom ceiling from €4000M to €6000M. The document is available on request. The decision on increasing the loans ceiling is due to be considered by the Council of Ministers (ECOFIN) in the near future.
Friends of the Earth is the largest grassroots environmental network in the world, campaigning to protect the environment and to create sustainable societies. Friends of the Earth Europe (FoEE) unites more than 30 national member groups with thousands of local groups.
"E.U. support for building dangerous reactors is wrong and should stop. It is crazy to increase the risk of another disaster by aiding a new power plant that is the same type as Chernobyl.
"This scandal casts grave doubt over the credibility of the Commission’s claim to be acting in the interests of atomic safety. It is becoming clear that the real motive is more sinister, to save a dying nuclear industry at any cost. The Commission cannot be trusted with nuclear safety when it also retains a duty to promote nuclear.
"Euratom loans and the Euratom Treaty itself are out of date, biased and undemocratic. They should both be scrapped. Friends of the Earth is calling the European Convention to support abolition of Euratom under the new E.U. constitution."
Friends of the Earth Europe
Further information is available from: http://www.foeeurope.org/activities/Nuclear/nuclear.htm
Please also read: "High court rules against restarting Monju nuclear reactor"
Tuesday, January 28, 2003
http://www.japantoday.com/e/?content=news&cat=1&id=247259
and
"New Chair of Key Nuclear Review Board Prompts Concerns About Objectivity on Yucca": Statement of Lisa Gue, Senior Energy Analyst, Public Citizen’s Critical Mass Energy and Environment Program;
http://www.citizen.org/pressroom/release.cfm?ID=1315
NOTES:
(1) The document is a so-called "Non-paper" that was distributed by the Commission to Member States following questioning at a meeting on the 10 December 2002 regarding the proposal to increase the Euratom ceiling from €4000M to €6000M. The document is available on request. The decision on increasing the loans ceiling is due to be considered by the Council of Ministers (ECOFIN) in the near future.
Friends of the Earth is the largest grassroots environmental network in the world, campaigning to protect the environment and to create sustainable societies. Friends of the Earth Europe (FoEE) unites more than 30 national member groups with thousands of local groups.