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The proliferation of radioactive waste is a major problem for the environment and public health. Nonetheless, countries like France are relaunching their programme to construct new nuclear power stations, which are no better than the old ones in this respect. At the same time, the liberalisation mentality brings social dangers as well as ecological ones, in particular because of the increasingly widespread practice of outsourcing the maintenance of nuclear installations.
In this context, the Vidal-Quadras Roca report, as amended, admittedly claims to contribute to better monitoring of nuclear waste, but it presents serious shortcomings in two respects: it maintains the possibility for a State to export its waste to a third country (even though, and this is an improvement, it provides for, ‘the prior written informed consent of States’) and it advocates the deep geological disposal of radioactive waste, a practice that is strongly opposed by those who live nearby and by many scientists.
That is why we voted against this report. The nuclear sector confirms that it is prohibitively expensive and benefits from scandalously advantageous conditions compared with sectors that produce ‘clean’ energy. We need to reverse this way of thinking. We therefore express our solidarity with the joint demonstration calling for us to abandon nuclear power that will be taking place on Saturday 17 January in Paris."@en1
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