18 Amendments of Bernd LANGE related to 2010/0306(NLE)
Amendment 65 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 23
Recital 23
Amendment 71 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 24
Recital 24
(24) While it is up to the Member States to define their energy mix, aAll Member States generate radioactive waste, whether or not they have nuclear reactors. Radioactive waste arises mainly from activities of the nuclear fuel cycle, such as the operation of nuclear power plants and the reprocessing of spent fuel, but also from other activities, such as applications of radioactive isotopes in medicine, research and industry.
Amendment 75 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 25
Recital 25
(25) The operation of nuclear reactors also generates spent fuel. Each Member State may define its fuel cycle policy considering spent fuel as a valuable resource that may be reprocessed, or deciding to dispose of it aaim should be to avoid generating any more radioactive waste by operating nuclear reactors, as storage and disposal involve significant risks, place a long-term burden on Member States and tie up valuable resources. Reprocessing, in particular, increases the risks waste. Whatever option is chosen, the disposal of high level wassociated with storage and disposal. The Member State,s separated at reprocessing, or of spent fuel regarded as waste should be consideredhould, therefore, eschew this technology.
Amendment 86 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 27
Recital 27
(27) Radioactive waste, including spent fuel considered as waste, requires containment and isolation from humans and the living environment over the long term. Its specific nature (content of radionuclides) requires arrangements to protect human health and the environment against dangers arising from ionizing radiation, including disposal in appropriate facilities as the end point of its management. The storage of radioactive waste, including long-term storage, is an interim solution but not an alternative to disposal.
Amendment 93 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 29
Recital 29
(29) The typical disposal concept for short lived low and intermediate level waste is near surface disposal. Following 30 years of research, it is broadly accepted at the technical level that deep geological disposal represents the safest and most sustainable opthe feasibility of disposal deep underground in suitable geological formations as the end point of the management of high level waste and spent fuel considerppears to have been scientifically verified, as waste. Thus moving towards implthough an elementation of drisposal should be pursuedk remains.
Amendment 99 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 29 a (new)
Recital 29 a (new)
(29a) In view of the research into the disposal of radioactive waste by transmutation or other means of reducing its radioactivity and half-life, longer-term reversible storage of radioactive waste in deep geological formations should also be considered;
Amendment 134 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point a
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point a
(a) all stages of spent fuel management when the spent fuel results from the operation of civilian nuclear reactors or is managed within civilian activities, including spent fuel originating from military defence programmes which is transferred to exclusively civilian use and managed within civilian activities;
Amendment 173 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – point d
Article 4 – paragraph 2 – point d
(d) spent fuel and radioactive waste are safely managed, including in the long term., with the proviso that, throughout the period of a disposal facility’s operation, it must be possible at any time to retrieve radioactive waste stored in waste containers,
Amendment 186 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 4 – paragraph 3
Article 4 – paragraph 3
(3) Radioactive waste shall be disposed of, or placed in longer-term safe storage, in the Member State in which it was generated, unless agreements are concluded between Member States to use disposal facilities in one of them. In the event of Member States having only negligible amounts of radioactive waste to dispose of or being unable to find any suitable sites for geological disposal, cross-border cooperation shall, exceptionally, be possible, provided care is taken to ensure compliance with uniform standards for the disposal of waste under European control.
Amendment 201 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 4 – paragraph 3 a (new)
Article 4 – paragraph 3 a (new)
(3a) In no circumstances may radioactive waste be exported to non-EU countries.
Amendment 208 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 5 – paragraph 1 – point c
Article 5 – paragraph 1 – point c
(c) a system of licensing of spent fuel and radioactive waste management activities and facilities, including prohibition of the operation of a spent fuel or radioactive waste management facility without a licence and ensuring that all radioactive waste, by whomsoever it is produced, is managed on a non-discriminatory basis;
Amendment 217 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 6 – paragraph 3 a (new)
Article 6 – paragraph 3 a (new)
(3a) Member States shall ensure that the competent regulatory authorities inform the public regularly and transparently about their activities and those of the licence holders, about the operation of storage and disposal facilities and about safety and security risks.
Amendment 248 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 10
Article 10
Member States shall ensure that the national framework guarantees that radequateioactive waste producers make sufficient financial resources are available when needed for the management of spent fuel and radioactive waste, taking due account of the responsibility of radioactive waste producers. Member States shall ensure that radioactive waste producers establish and have available the requisite reserves for this purpose.
Amendment 249 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 10 – paragraph 1 a (new)
Article 10 – paragraph 1 a (new)
(1a) The costs of disposal shall be transparently set out and published by the Member States and reassessed each year. The obligations imposed on radioactive waste producers shall be revised accordingly.
Amendment 268 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 12 a (new)
Article 12 a (new)
Amendment 275 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 14 – point 2
Article 14 – point 2
(2) concepts, plans and technical solutions from generation to relatively long-term storage or disposal;
Amendment 282 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 14 – point 8 a (new)
Article 14 – point 8 a (new)
(8a) a binding and verifiable time-frame for the implementation of national programmes and compliance with requirements 1 to 8 above.
Amendment 285 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 15 – paragraph 3 a (new)
Article 15 – paragraph 3 a (new)
(3a) The Commission shall monitor compliance with the time-frames submitted pursuant to Article 14(8a) for the implementation of the national programmes of the Member States.