Traduction de «maintaining power plant machinery » (Anglais → Français) :

The Member of the European Commission responsible for Energy also maintains that Europe should strive for a future without nuclear power plants.

A few years ago, I was astonished by public information on the powerful construction machinery that European Union companies are providing Tehran with. This included deep mining equipment to build underground plants, where a nuclear weapon is most probably being produced.

33. Congratulates Bulgaria on the steps taken to ensure a high level of nuclear safety at the Kozloduy Nuclear Power Plant; notes that the Council's Atomic Questions Group has delivered a most favourable report on that high level of nuclear safety and notes the significant contribution by Bulgaria to energy supply in the wider region; recognises that, in the course of accession negotiations with the EU, Bulgaria made considerable compromises with a significant impact on the future energy situation both nationally and in the region; expresses concern that a considerable decrease in the region's ...[+++] reserve generating capacities has now been forecast for 2010-2012; emphasises therefore the importance of new capacity construction for maintaining Bulgaria's favourable energy situation on a sustainable basis as well as guaranteeing the security of electricity supply in the region and achieving Kyoto Protocol targets; insists that the Commission must closely monitor developments and provide every assistance in this regard; and calls on the Council, as signatory to the Kozloduy plant closure agreement, to be cognisant of the consequent risk of blackouts in many countries in the region and, therefore, to be prepared to view the closure dates within that agreement more flexibly until new generation capacity can come on stream in Bulgaria, without in any way jeopardising safety requirements, which must take absolute priority;

33. Congratulates Bulgaria on the steps taken to ensure a high level of nuclear safety at the Kozloduy Nuclear Power Plant; notes that the Council's Atomic Questions Group has delivered a most favourable report on that high level of nuclear safety and notes the significant contribution by Bulgaria to energy supply in the wider region; recognises that, in the course of accession negotiations with the EU, Bulgaria made considerable compromises with a significant impact on the future energy situation both nationally and in the region; expresses concern that a considerable decrease in the region's ...[+++] reserve generating capacities has now been forecast for 2010-2012; emphasises therefore the importance of new capacity construction for maintaining Bulgaria's favourable energy situation on a sustainable basis as well as guaranteeing the security of electricity supply in the region and achieving Kyoto Protocol targets; insists that the Commission must closely monitor developments and provide every assistance in this regard; and calls on the Council, as signatory to the Kozloduy plant closure agreement, to be cognisant of the consequent risk of blackouts in many countries in the region and, therefore, to be prepared to view the closure dates within that agreement more flexibly until new generation capacity can come on stream in Bulgaria, without in any way jeopardising safety requirements, which must take absolute priority;

NUCLEAR SAFETY IN THE CONTEXT OF THE ELECTRICITY SECTOR IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE AND IN THE CIS Following a discussion of nuclear safety and related energy supply needs in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe and in the EC, the Council adopted the following conclusions: "THE COUNCIL, reaffirming its commitment to assist with improving nuclear safety in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe and the CIS, and its awareness of the need to pursue such improvements within the framework of sustainable medium and long term energy strategies for those countries; 1. recalls the Council conclusions of 7 December 1992 and of 25 June 1993 and notes the Commission report on "Community assistance in the energy sector to the countries of ...[+++] Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union"; notes the report submitted to it and to the European Parliament by the Commission on 9 December 1993 under the title "Nuclear safety in the context of the electricity sector in Central and Eastern Europe and the CIS"; 2. urges the Commission and the Member States, in the framework of their ongoing co-operation with the countries concerned and, in particular, in appropriate international fora; - to prevail on the governments concerned to agree to the earliest practical closure of the less safe reactors that cannot be upgraded to adequate standards of safety at a reasonable cost, - to press for the achievement of safety levels for new nuclear power plants and for those maintained in service, equivalent to those in practice in the European Union, - to seek actively the development of independent nuclear safety authorities enjoying adequate means and resources in order to ensure their effective operation, and - to promote the development and implementation of adequate safeguards and controls of nuclear materials and installations. 3. supports, through the relevant European Union and Member States' means taking into account the wider energy situation and the individual charac ...

They assumed the government would set up centralized storage and disposal systems and, hence, did not put in the capability at their nuclear power plants to maintain storage, even interim storage, of all the waste from their individual power plants.