MEPS CALL FOR REFORMS TO DECOMMISISONING PROJECTS IF FUNDING SHOULD BE RENEWED
April 1st, 2011
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Parliament has called for improvements to be made to three eastern Europe decommissioning programmes if generous European Union (EU) funding is to be renewed.
The EU is now starting to consider its next medium-term financing programme from 2014 to 2020, which means authorisation for many spending projects will lapse in 2013. This includes financing for decommissioning nuclear reactors at Ignalina (Lithuania), where Euro EUR1.3 billion of Brussels money is expected to be spent from 2007-13; Bohunice (Slovakia), where EUR613 million ...
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