Translation of "Abandon de l'énergie nucléaire " (French → English) :

The project is based on three pillars: Evaluation of Human Resources Trends in the Nuclear Energy Sector (EHRO-N, see chapter 3.4.), Contribution to Nuclear ET (through ENEN, see chapter 3.1.) and Knowledge Preservation, which contributes to maintaining, consolidating and transferring EU knowledge in nuclear technology in support to DG RTD Euratom FP7 relevant projects and the IAEA core activities on knowledge management.

Directory code: Energy / Nuclear energy / Nuclear research Energy / Nuclear energy / Nuclear research

For example, Belgium, Spain, the Netherlands and Germany all adopted policies or legislation providing for the gradual abandonment of nuclear energy or preventing the expansion of nuclear generating stations.

In the medium and long term and with the current state of the art, it must be considered that the total abandonment of nuclear power would mean that 35% of electricity production would have to come from renewable and conventional energy sources, to which must be added considerable efforts in energy efficiency and the fact that energy demand is forecast to rise.

To this extent, neither does it present a legal hurdle for decisions not to pursue atomic energy.

The Governments of the Member States and the Commission of the European Communities were represented as follows: Belgium Mr Jan DE BOCK Deputy Permanent Representative Denmark Mr Jann SJURSEN Minister for Energy Mr Soeren SKAFTE State Secretary, Ministry of Industry and Energy Germany Mr Dieter von WÜRZEN State Secretary, Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs Greece Mr Georges APOSTOLAKIS Secretary-General for Energy Spain Mr Claudio ARANZADI Minister for Industry and Energy France Mr Gérard LONGUET Minister for Energy and External Trade Ireland Mr Brian COWEN Minister for Energy Italy Mr Paolo SAVONA Minister for Industry Luxembourg Mr Alex BODRY Minister for Energy Netherlands Mr Koos ANDRIESSEN Minister for Energy Portugal Mr Luis Filipe ...[+++]PEREIRA State Secretary for Energy United Kingdom Mr Timothy EGGAR Minister for Energy * * * Commission Mr Abel MATUTES Member NUCLEAR SAFETY IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE AND THE FORMER USSR - COUNCIL CONCLUSIONS "THE COUNCIL, committed to assisting with improving the nuclear safety in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union and aware of the need for sustainable, medium and long-term solutions, to energy supply problems of those coutries, 1.recalls the Council conclusions of 7 December 1992 on nuclear safety in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, involving measures under the Community's PHARE and TACIS programmes for immediate improvements in the safety of nuclear power plants; recalls the importance of the G-24 mechanism for the co-ordination of assistance programmes and the leading role of the Community in this area; recalls also the Community's intended contribution to the multilateral fund for nuclear safety in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union; 2.notes the assistance already provided by the Community for an immediate improvement in the safety of the plants in question, as presented in the report tabled by the Commiss ...