The EU -Commission will enhance investment in the nuclear energy according to a report. These should flow for strategic investments, among other funds from the European Fund. Security have always top priority.
According to the news website “Spiegel Online” on Tuesday, citing the draft of a Commission strategy paper, to the ” technological supremacy to be defended in the nuclear sector “.
the Member States should therefore in the research, development, financing and co-operate more in the construction of new, innovative reactors, it said.
development of new reactor technologies more promote
the paper should be the basis of future nuclear policy of the European Commission and adopted on Wednesday by the competent Commissioners and then submitted to the European Parliament. However, the paper is only a basis for discussion for experts and not I set the final position of the EU Commission, a spokeswoman said in Brussels.
The ED proposed according to “Spiegel online”, among other things, to improve the conditions for investment. Funds should be allocated, inter alia, the European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI) and the EU’s research programs.
Flexible Mini-reactors
Settled some of these programs also through the European Investment Bank ( EIB), through which influences the German Finance Ministry. According to the report Brussels wants to promote the development of new reactor technologies more.
Among other things, the construction of flexible mini-nuclear reactors should be pursued. No later than 2030, according to “Spiegel Online” such reactors in Europe be in use.
131 nuclear power plants in 14 Member States
In this security have always been a top priority, is quoted from the draft. Nevertheless, research on material stress in older reactors until 2025 should be available. Analyzes this are, among other questionable cracks in the Belgian nuclear plants Tihange and Doel. The European Commission responded to questions of the news portal to the strategy document not yet.
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In the EU, there are 131 nuclear power plants in 14 Member States, they have a capacity of about 121 gigawatts. At present in 14 countries new nuclear power plants in planning
Gabriel. “Absurd thinking”
Federal Minister Sigmar Gabriel (SPD) has sharply criticized the reasoning of the European Commission. “It’s absurd to think about how you want to re-equip one of the oldest technologies that we use for energy production in Europe, with subsidies,” Gabriel said Tuesday in Brussels. This would be “completely the wrong way”. The paper of the European Commission had “not been prepared under intervention of Germany”.
If Europe wants to agree on the promotion of energy production, then for sustainable, secure and climate-friendly. “But not all kinds of energies, where the next generation is again loaded with hundreds and thousands of tons of nuclear waste,” Gabriel said.
The strict no to the considerations of the European Commission was not patronizing other EU countries No one is interfering in national decisions on what form of energy will have a country, Gabriel said. But it is a matter which energy is to be promoted. Atomic also means a threat to countries that had opted against this form of energy
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