Releases to the environment of radioactive substances
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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 from (former) Nuclear Fuel
Reprocessing Sites.
As far as available, discharge information from Nuclear Power Stations that have stopped
operation has been taken up in this report. In the period 1999-2003 the following Nuclear Power
Stations stopped operation: Barsebäck unit 1 (Sweden – 1999), both units of Hinkley Point A
(United Kingdom – 2000), both units of Bradwell (United Kingdom – 2002), the four units of Calder
Hall (United Kingdom – 2003) and the Stade reactor (Germany – 2003).
Since the last report, covering the period 1995-1999 and published in 2001, the Group of Experts
established under Article 37 of the Euratom Treaty finished a programme of work to define which
nuclides and nuclide categories, on the basis of their potential significance, should be included in
future reports. The result of this activity has been translated into Commission Recommendation
2004/2/EURATOM.
Commission Recommendation 2004/2/EURATOM defines harmonised requirements for the
content of the information provided by Member States on nuclides discharged into the
environment. It aims at achieving comparable measurement results of radioactive discharges on a
Community scale and tries to ensure that minimum requirements for the methods of analysing
radioactive discharges are met across the Community.
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