Assessment of radioactive emissions from Sellafield and Cap de la Hague

11.2.2002

ORAL QUESTION H-0093/02
for Question Time at the part-session in March 2002
pursuant to Rule 43 of the Rules of Procedure
by Nuala Ahern
to the Commission

Has the Commission already made an assessment and if not, will it undertake an immediate comparative assessment of the details of radioactive effluents and emissions released respectively from the Sellafield nuclear waste and fuel processing plant, operated by BNFL in the UK, and the La Hague nuclear waste and fuel processing plant, operated by COGEMA in France, as published in the Commission Radiation Protection Report 127, Radioactive effluents from nuclear power stations and nuclear fuel reprocessing plants in the European Union, 1995‑1999, and the report prepared for the European Parliament's Scientific and Technological Options Assessment Programme (STOA) on 'Possible Toxic Effects from the Nuclear Reprocessing Plants at Sellafield (UK) and Cap de la Hague (France)', published in December 2001 and November 2001 respectively?

 

 

Tabled: 11.02.2002

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