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"en.20011024.4.3-094"2
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The manufacturing companies that used to buy energy from Chernobyl, and by means of which it was possible to sustain such a colossal complex of nuclear reactors, are, since the collapse of the Soviet Union, largely non-existent. The population of the Ukraine is so impoverished that it lacks the purchasing power to be able to buy any substantial amount of electricity as a consumer. Neither is there any internal funding available to finance new, cleaner and safe methods of generating electricity, and, given the long half-life of radio-active material, we will need to be very patient before what is left of the demolished stations is removed. Everything that is being done now, unfortunately, is impossible without outside aid. The measures to provide Chernobyl with a new protective casing by 2005, are too little and too late. The first casing – erected shortly after the disaster in 1986 – still conceals a dangerous seat of fire, and nuclear energy remains a source of future risks. In the debate on 2 May regarding 15 years of Chernobyl, I already indicated that other types of nuclear power plants are also unsafe and that they, upon closure, leave a legacy impossible to solve. Despite all these shortcomings, I support this finance proposal, for doing nothing is not a solution at all."@en1
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