Atompolitik in Europa
Wie ist die Position der EU-Mitgliedsstaaten zu Atompolitik?
Frankreich besitzt den größten Nuklearpark in Europa, der 59 Reaktoren umfasst. 78% der Elektrizität des Landes ist Atomstrom. Solche Abhängigkeit von Atomkraft gibt es auch in anderen EU-Staaten. Neubaupläne für Atomreaktoren gibt es in Finnland, Tschechien und auch in der Schweiz. In Deutschland sollen 22 Reaktoren bis 2022 am Netz bleiben, gegen starken Widerstand. Andere Nationen wollen die Atomindustrie wiedebeleben: Ist die Förderung der Atomenergie der richtige Weg für Europa?
50 years after the Union's first nuclear power station went into operation, the EU countries have yet to find a common solution for the handling of radioactive waste from the plants. (In Danish)
Nuclear power has pretty much been out of the Danish political debate for more than 20 years. But in the climate debate, the issue of nuclear power is finding its way back as a topic. (In Danish)
The European Commission, which has a "guiding" role in European nuclear policy, are just now adopting a new directive on disposing of nuclear waste.(In Danish)
Pioner in the field among the EU States, Finland is building a safe nuclear waste repository, near the Olkiluoto power plant, in the south west of the country.
Germany agreed to extend the life span of its 17 nuclear power plants, provoking more anger from anti-nuclear activists in the country (in French).
It costs less than energy from fossil fuel and does not produce CO2, but raises other environmental issues. Has nuclear energy a future? (In Romanian)
Zarnowiec is supposed to be the location for Poland's first nuclear power plant. The plans meet with Polish ecologists protest. (In German.)
Jacopo Giliberto, a journalist focusing on the energy industry at Italian newspaper “Il Sole24Ore”, talks about the plusess and minuses of using nuclear energy in Italy...
Nuclear power has pretty much been out of the Danish political debate for more than 20 years. But in the climate debate, the issue of nuclear power is finding its way back as a topic. (In Danish)
Right now, Slovenia has only one nuclear power plant, but they are likely to build a second reactor... (in Slovenian)
A convoy of nuclear waste bound for Germany has finally arrived at its destination after days of protests delayed it. The one hundred-tonnes of radioactive cargo left France on 5 November to be stored at the north German town of Gorleben. Anti-nuclear activists had been trying to stop it from reaching its destination. This sort of demonstration is quite common in the country, what is surprising many this time is the large number of protesters.
The contract to build two new nuclear reactors in the Czech Republic's Temelín with the option for another three elsewhere has been described as the tender of the century. The deal will be worth millions of euros, but there is more than the money at stake. (In Czech)




