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"en.20011022.4.1-057"2
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"Madam President, after the 11 September atrocity we are in a new situation. Acts of malice and not just accidents are the focus of our concern.
No-fly zones should be established immediately around the two reprocessing plants in the EU: Sellafield and Cap de la Hague. Power plants generally are a ticking time-bomb in our midst. The only logical response is to close them all down and end this terrible threat.
The French government has already moved to strengthen anti-terrorist precautions at Cap de la Hague. These include ground-to-air missiles. The German government has concluded that nuclear reactors could not withstand a collision with a targeted passenger jet. It has undertaken an emergency risk assessment. Government ministers oppose anti-aircraft defences and have made it clear that plants that lie in the flight paths of large airports can be shut down if they are rated as serious risk.
The US government has halted the transport of nuclear materials, and the EU government should also immediately halt the transport of nuclear materials, including MOX fuels. I do not believe that the response we have had so far from the Commission is at all adequate. The IAEA has confirmed that 75% of the notifications of incidents involving nuclear material in the last year were illegal activities. Nuclear materials are currently clearly not secure and not safe.
Neither Sellafield nor la Hague was designed to withstand the impact of a commercial jet. They contain tens of thousands of tonnes of spent nuclear fuel and over 100 tonnes of separated plutonium between them. A new report, which is both timely and in terms of content deeply worrying, has been prepared for the European Parliament. I understand it will be circulated tomorrow by the STOA committee. I expect it to be circulated. I wonder why it has not already been circulated to Members, as I believe it has already been circulated to the industry?
The report states that an act of malice – and this was presented to us before September – could initiate a sequence of events that release radioactive material in the liquid high-level waste tanks, in Sellafield in particular, with effects much greater and more devastating than Chernobyl. This is very serious. I need an adequate response from the Commission, and so far we have not had it."@en1
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