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We are voting against Konstantinos Alyssandrakis’s report on the programme for research and training on nuclear energy. This report in fact supports the Commission’s position in this field and is very much in the spirit of the Euratom Treaty, an outdated treaty with the very much official objective of promoting the use of nuclear energy, which is in itself highly questionable. Financing is accordingly chiefly directed towards research on nuclear fusion, which the industrial establishment claims the same virtues for now that it once attributed to nuclear fission – and we all know what that led to!
It goes without saying that funds will have to continue to be committed to research on radioactive waste, given that such large quantities of this waste have been generated in such an irresponsible way. However, they will not be managed in the same way given the political approach that has been adopted. By emphasising deep geological disposal, the programme before us seeks to make nuclear generation socially acceptable by evading the most contentious aspect. If we are really to tackle the problem we are faced with, the first step we need to take, as a matter of urgency, is to stop producing such waste, and then to steer research towards
waste management as part of a strategy of abandoning nuclear power."@en1
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