No mention of nuclear in EC's energy, emissions package

[bananas]

A wise decision.

http://www.platts.com/Nuclear/News/8487590.xml

No mention of nuclear in EC's energy, emissions package

London (Platts)--24Jan2008

Nuclear was ignored in the EC's energy and emissions package released by the
European Commission January 23. The draft, covering the post-Kyoto compliance
period from 2013 to 2020, would mandate an EU-wide emissions cap implemented
by country-specific carbon emission cuts to realize a 20% reduction in CO2
levels from 1990 by 2020. Power generators would be denied any free carbon
allowances and would have to buy them all at auction; some heavy industry
would still be granted free allowances.

The package would also require the EU to derive 20% of its power from
renewables, not including nuclear, and proposes required percentages of
renewables for each country. For instance, for France, which gets 78% of its
electricity from nuclear, the EC proposed it have to get 23% from renewables
by 2020, and Sweden, which gets half its power from nuclear, would have to get
50% of its electricity from renewables.

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1. Apparently the deputy chairman of British Energy was correct

when he said that, apart from France and Finland, it is "highly unlikely" that any plants will be built in the rest of Europe before 2020.

http://www.neimagazine.com/story.asp?sectionCode=132&storyCode=2040766

No new nukes for UK
07 December 2006

Clare Spottiswoode, deputy chairman of British Energy, has said that no new nuclear generation capacity can be expected in the UK or much of the the rest of Europe before 2020.

The comments came at a Platts energy security forum in New York where Spottiswoode was quoted as saying that, apart from France and Finland, it is "highly unlikely" that any plants will be built in the rest of Europe before 2020.

Spottiswoode added that the reason was that the rest of Europe would not undertake any new nuclear development until the UK does and it will take until at least 2020 for the UK government to put in place a proper planning regime and regulations for new construction.

With the UK’s current fleet of nuclear stations due to be all but decommissioned by then, a significant capacity crunch is looming.

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2. It is also "highly unlikely" that any emissions program will be effective.

Maybe over in anti-nuke fundie land someone told you that the assholes in Europe met their Kyoto commitments.

I hate to trouble fundies with numbers, but the emissions "strategy" of Europe and its "commitment" to Kyoto is pretty clear: http://www.eia.doe.gov/pub/international/iealf/tableh1co2.xls

If France stops exporting electricity, most of the fundies in Europe will have to spend hours in the dark.