1 million years local storage for nuclear waste EU 2025, no export

Post date: Nov 9, 2010 7:13:32 AM

7 November 2010

EU ban for Nuclear Waste export,

no offloading France to Russia

The European Commission stop nuclear waste Export France Russia; 2025 create local storage for 1 million years

On 3 November unveiled new proposals, stating that EU governments will be banned from offloading their nuclear waste onto third countries.

End of Nuclear age, no waste storage

3rd countries like Russia or Africa.

Should include clean Space moon, sun

(no destruction sending waste into Sun)

EU Energy Commissioner Guenther Oettinger force EU governments to deal with long-term radioactive waste 2025

wants to put a stop to the current practice where EU member states, which do not want to store spent nuclear fuel and radioactive waste on their territory, can pay countries outside the bloc to do the job for them. “We do not want to export nuclear waste to non-EU countries, that is a cheap solution ... we want full disposal of fuel in our territory, that means everyone has to take responsibility for their waste,” he told reporters in Brussels. Oettinger presented a draft EU directive that would force EU governments to deal with long-term radioactive waste - currently stored in interim facilities that only have a 50-100 year lifespan - by burying it hundreds of meters underground. France, Sweden and Finland have already committed to have so-called deep underground geological repositories operational between 2020 and 2025.

The facilities would have to deal with material that can stay radioactive for up to one million years

source: neurope.eu/articles/EU-Nuclear-waste