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dcterms:Date	"2011-03-23"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Situation in Japan, including the nuclear power plant alerts (debate)2
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lpv:document identification number	"en.20110323.18.3-137-000"2
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lpv:speaker	lp:Marita Ulvskog2
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Arbetarepartiet- Socialdemokraterna (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 vice-chair; S&D (2009-07-14--2012-10-15)3 substitute; ENVI (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 member; Delegation for relations with the United States (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 member; Special Committee on the Financial, Economic and Social Crisis (2009-10-08--2011-07-31)3 member; ITRE (2009-07-16--2012-01-18)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with Iran (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3
lpv:translated text	". Madam President, one of the world’s most developed countries from an economic and technical perspective has been thrown into a state of humanitarian crisis. It is, first and foremost, a tragedy for all those people who have been affected. The images from Japan are heart-rending. We need to give them all the support and every possible form of assistance we can. However, the disaster also demonstrates the vulnerability of all modern societies. What has happened in Japan could happen in other parts of the world – even here. Even in countries with extremely high safety requirements, this safety may prove deceptive. Now, of course, we cannot simply imagine nuclear power away. There are certainly some countries in Europe that do not have nuclear power, but the majority are extremely, or completely, dependent on it. Some are building new nuclear power plants and some are decommissioning them. That is the situation we find ourselves in – in other words, the situation is different in different Member States as regards vulnerability, but we are nevertheless in this together and we need to take a long term- approach to our energy supply. We quite simply have to switch our energy systems so that we reduce the risks and the one-sided nature of these systems. We must make a serious effort to prioritise research and development and investments in, and the expansion of, long-term sustainable and renewable energy sources. Europe has huge untapped potential here that should be set against the fact that the construction of new nuclear power plants will make us dependent on them for many more decades to come – in other words new investments in nuclear energy are a means of postponing and preventing the expansion of renewable energy, a way of mortgaging the future. Instead, what we should be doing now is having a serious debate with regard to raising the EU’s renewable energy targets and ambitions and as soon as possible deciding on binding energy efficiency targets and a long-term plan for our energy supply – a switch to renewable energy. The collective stress test for nuclear power plants in all countries is therefore necessary, but then what is needed is a long-term approach."@en1
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