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In France, six old reactors have already been submitted to an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA): Chinon-B, Gravelines 2 and 4 and Bugey-3, Tricastin-3&4. Both the Espoo Convention and the EIA Directive of the EU require the assessment of alternatives of a project. But no alternatives were assessed. This procedure neither presented energy production alternatives nor…
On 10.08.2023, the French regulator ASN’s decision on the lifetime extension of Tricastin-1, which had been taken already on 29.06.2023, was announced – and this without a transboundary EIA. This is in violation of the Espoo “Guidance on the applicability of the Convention to the lifetime extension of nuclear power plants”. In November 2025, the…
The PINC is required under Article 40 of the Euratom Treaty and should provide an overview of nuclear development and investment trends in the EU. In spring 2025, the draft PINC was open for consultation, and the Joint Project submitted a statement. In this statement, we called for a realistic assessment of the role of…
The Nuclear Transparency Watch network and the European Commission (DG ENER), [in coordination with ENSREG, ANCCLI and the EEB] were organising an Aarhus Convention and Nuclear (ACN) Round Table on “Implementation of the Nuclear Safety Directive: transparency, public participation, and the role of civil society in independent nuclear regulation” from 21-22 January 2025.Gabriele Mraz provided…
The Borssele reactor is in operation since 1973, i.e. already for more than 50 years, so it is one of the oldest NPPs in the world. The Dutch Nuclear Energy Act defines that the Borssele lifetime is restricted to 2033. But the government under former Prime Minister Rutte decided to keep Borssele in operation beyond…
The 20 reactors of the 1300 MW fleet were originally designed for operation of 40 years. Now their lifetime shall be extended. A consultation is ongoing until 30 Sept 2024, but only for generic aspects of the fourth Periodic Safety Review. Even after performing the envisaged lifetime extension program, a considerable gap between the safety…
The Cernavoda-1 reactor in Romania is in operation since 1996. CANDU reactors have a design life of 30 years. The lifetime shall be extended from 2029 for 30 years according to an information from operator Nuclearelectricas’s website. This would result in a total lifetime extension of even 33 years. A transboundary Environmental Impact Assessment is…
Paks II is one of the most controversial new nuclear power plant construction projects in the EU. Apart from the general problems of nuclear energy utilisation (lack of economic efficiency, risk of accidents, unresolved nuclear waste disposal, etc.), the availability of balanced information for the public is not sufficient, especially in Hungary, also due to…
Olkiluoto 1&2 in Finland started operation in 1978 and 1980. They have already undergone one lifetime extension from the originally planned 40 years up to 60 years, which will be reached in 2038. The ongoing procedure comprises a lifetime extension for additional 10 or even 20 years up to 2048 or 2058, respectively. The reactors…
The Joint Project participated in the EIA on the lifetime extension of the reactors Doel-4 and Tihange-3 in May 2023. Both reactors will be 40 years in operation in 2025, now their lifetime shall be extended until 2037. As both reactors have been constructed before the EIA laws came into force, they have never undergone…