Translation of "Opérateur de réacteur nucléaire " (French → English) :

14. Recalls that Chernobyl-type nuclear reactors are still located nearby the EU borders as well as other first generation nuclear reactors and calls on Russia to shut them down immediately; urges, in the meantime, the EU and its Member States to ban imports of nuclear power which do not meet the highest nuclear security and safety standards;

In the process of a progressive nuclear phase out, reactors and other nuclear facilities posing greater risks must be shut down immediately, i.e. all nuclear reactors and other nuclear installations in seismic regions or coastal areas with significant risk for rising sea level or a possibility for tsunamis, all reactors without secondary or full pressure containment, all nuclear boiling water reactors (BWR) with a single cooling system and storage of spent fuel outside of the containment and all nuclear installations built before 1980;

A. whereas the recent earthquake with thousands of victims in North-Eastern Japan led to the shutdown of a number of Japan's operational nuclear reactors and whereas the following tsunami with tidal waves higher than 10 meters destroyed not only the existing power grids but also the backup and emergency supply systems of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant; whereas the resulting lack of cooling capacity led to overheating of some of the nuclear fuel elements and to a meltdown of parts the core reactor; whereas so far the IAEA qualified these developments as a serious ...[+++]accident (level 6) on the international INES scale,

4. Considers that the European Union must comprehensively reassess its approach to nuclear safety, bearing in mind that nuclear energy will continue to be part of the energy mix of several member states for many years to come and that new reactors are planned or are already under construction; Calls on Member States meanwhile to impose a moratorium on the development and commissioning of new nuclear reactors, at least for the period in which the stress-tests are conducted and evaluated;

(6) The Union recognises also the need for financial support to progress further with mitigating measures in the energy sector given the extent of the capacity loss by the closure of the nuclear units and its impact on the environment, energy prices for consumers and security of supply in the region, and on the volume of greenhouse gas emissions, since the replacement of production capacity of Units 1 to 4 of the Kozloduy Nuclear Power Plant had to be compensated to a substantial extent through primary energy imports and by imported and domestic fossil energy, and with special emphasis on the need to increase energy efficiency and develo ...[+++]p the renewable energy sector.

[2] The 14 Member States which have nuclear power reactors in operation are Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, the Netherlands, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and the UK; Italy and Lithuania only have nuclear power reactors under decommissioning.