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Forty thousand cubic metres of radioactive waste is produced each year in the European Union. Of this, 80% is short-lived low-level radioactive waste, 5% long-lived low-level radioactive waste and less than 10% high-level waste. Armed with such data, I think it is important to establish a European legislative framework to regulate, with the help of national programmes, the spent fuel and radioactive waste production and disposal sector.
The sustainable disposal of certain substances is a goal that requires ongoing monitoring and the gradual emergence of technological solutions in the long term. That is why I agree with the rapporteur on the need to focus on reversibility, in the hope that research will soon result in the definitive transmutation of spent fuel and radioactive waste so that it can be used for other purposes. In fact, research and technological development are the keystone of this sector: they will allow for the safe use of nuclear power, which is capable of meeting the energy needs of the food, medical, industrial, agricultural, research and education sectors.
Lastly, I hope that the adoption of this report will be an important step towards achieving the goal of a European energy plan."@en1
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