[cdn-nucl-l] "Europe needs to build at least 85 new nuclear power stations"

["Franta, Jaroslav" <frantaj@aecl.ca>]

this sounds like another act in the "theatre of the absurd" -- what's
required and what's actually being done (Sweden, Germany) are running
furiously in diametrically opposite directions....

Jaro

http://www.uilondon.org/nb/nb00/latestnews.htm
Uranium Institute News Briefing 00.15 | 5 - 11 April 2000
[NB00.15-1] Europe needs to build at least 85 new nuclear power stations
over the next 20 years if it wants to meet its carbon dioxide emissions
targets, according to a soon-to-be-released European Commission (EC) report
that had been kept confidential up to now. The EC energy and transport
directorate has now decided to release the report to 'stimulate debate'. The
report, compiled by a UK-based consultancy, concludes it is 'highly
unlikely' that new nuclear stations will gain public acceptance in Europe
but that without them legally binding emissions targets will be hard to
maintain. (Guardian, 10 April, p12) In a two-day meeting in Japan,
environment ministers from the G7 countries plus Russia failed to agree on a
deadline for ratifying the Kyoto Protocol but said that for most countries,
ratifying the 1997 protocol 'as soon as possible' would, in practice, mean
no later than 2002. (International Herald Tribune, 10 April, p5) 

[NB00.15-2] France's national carbon dioxide emissions dropped slightly in
1999 thanks to increases in nuclear and hydro generation. Nuclear's 394.3
TWh represented a share of 75.3% of electricity production. Total CO2
emissions, at 108.5 million tonnes, were 0.7% down on 1998, although 1998
had seen an 'exceptional' 5.4% increase over 1997. Although electricity
sector emissions were down, emissions from transport increased and 1999
emissions were still 4 million tonnes above the 1990 benchmark level.
(NucNet News, 141/00, 7 April; see also News Briefing 99.15-4)