Archive for February 14th, 2008
The future of Nuclear Energy in European union
By admin at 14 February, 2008, 10:53 pm
The Commission’s Green Paper on security of supply was published in November
2000. Since that date it has been the subject of a debate around a number of essential
questions. A number of them are worth briefly repeating to set the scene in Europe.
· The European Union is consuming more and more energy and importing more and
more [...]
Releases to the environment of radioactive substances
By admin at 14 February, 2008, 10:50 pm
The Commission periodically publishes reports on releases to the environment of radioactive
substances in airborne and liquid effluents from Nuclear Power Stations and Nuclear Fuel
Reprocessing Sites in the European Union.
The report, the eleventh in the series, deals with the period 1999-2003 and covers discharges from
Nuclear Power Stations of capacity greater than 50 MWe as well as [...]
Energy: ionising radiation
By admin at 14 February, 2008, 10:43 pm
The overall objective is to protect the health of exposed workers and members of the public against the dangers arising from ionising radiation, resulting from practices using radiation or radioactive substances e.g. medical and industrial applications as well as the nuclear fuel cycle.
In addition to natural radiation sources, artificial radioactivity [...]