In a very few years, nuclear waste from 143 reactors in various European countries will have to be collected in special containers and then buried in special bunkers to make them safe.
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In a few years, nuclear waste from 143 reactors present in various European countries they will have to be collected in special containers and then buried in special bunkers to make them safe.
To establish these new security measures on the radioactive waste treatment were the ministers of the member states of theXNUMX-XNUMX business days, who met yesterday to define the new procedures and the procedure for the disposal of waste, which later Chernobyl and the Fukushima spills are increasingly scary.
The novelties on the procedures also concern the export of waste to third countries, which, accepting only in part the proposal put forward by the European Parliament, are now undergoing a rather evident restriction, although the Commission has hoped until the end of a total ban.
All this finally seems to materialize the directive on nuclear waste and spent fuel, proposed by the Commission on 3 November last year and adopted by the European Council.
Basically, every EU state will have to draw up a detailed plan in which all the information relating to the activities undertaken, the costs to be incurred to implement them and the timing with which the disposal plants will be built will be specified.
Once the new disposal plans are presented, the nations will then have to respect what is reported in their documents and the Commission will be in charge of constant monitoring of the implementation of the plans, with particular attention to the progress made in the construction of the disposal facilities.
The new plans will have to be submitted by states by 2015 and then they will be verified by the European Commissioner for Energy Guenther Oettinger.
“After years of inactivity, - said Oettinger in a statement - the European Union is committed for the first time to definitively dispose of nuclear waste“.
And fortunately, there are countries, such as Germany, which are also planning to dismantle existing power plants.
Verdiana Amorosi
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