Nuclear Energy Issues

Members of the European Convention are being called upon to reject proposals that would effectively introduce in a new EU constitution a primary legal requirement to promote nuclear power.
In a letter sent to all Convention members, Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace, WWF, the European Environment Bureau and over 100 other organisations have urged support instead for earlier proposals that would require the abolition of the Euratom treaty commitments.
Praesidium’s approach (...)

A major review of the risks of radiation links nuclear pollution with increased rates of breast cancer and child leukaemia. This new assessment appears at a time when environmental groups are urging a reform of Euratom, the European nuclear energy treaty.
The present cancer epidemic is a result of pollution from nuclear energy and of exposures to global atmospheric weapons fallout, which peaked in the period 1959-63, according to a report from the European Committee of Radiation Risk (...)

A Chernobyl-style nuclear reactor could be financed by European Union funds, environmental groups warn. A non-paper from the EU-Commission, leaked to EU Enlargement Watch and Greenpeace reveals that the Commission’s plans to raise loans are not so much about security, but in fact about more nuclear power in Russia and Eastern Europe.
http://www.eu-energy.com/pdfs/euratomloanfin.pdf