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"The resolution tabled in the European Parliament on nuclear safety fifteen years after Chernobyl highlights the gravity of this major accident and its consequences for health and the environment. The resolution takes care not to endorse the replacement in Ukraine of ‘Russian and old’ nuclear power stations with ‘Western and modern’ nuclear power stations. It recommends a long-term policy which specifically includes energy savings and the use of renewable energy sources. It questions the reliability of the ‘risk model’ used by the official agencies. These measures are all in the right direction.
Even today, however, the European authorities have not really learnt the lessons from this disaster. The resolution itself does no more than recommend the closure of ‘at risk’ nuclear power stations. The causes of the accident, however, were not primarily technological ones. What Chernobyl shows above all is what happens when a nuclear power goes into crisis – a social crisis rather than a technical one. The accident was not, therefore, specifically Russian: it has universal significance and unveils one of the great lies peddled by the apostles of nuclear power. These ‘nucleocrats’ act ‘as if’ our societies could for centuries manage a form of energy that presents an immeasurable risk and will never experience a crisis. The lessons from the last century and the current chaos in the world suffice to show how irresponsible this premise is."@en1
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