Austria's Anti-Nuclear Crusade - European Nuclear Society

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• Austria required from Czechs German safety standards forTemelin• Temelin was first NPP placing work progress in Internet• Strongly abused by Austrian media and anti-nuclearnuclear groups,every minor problem was a major nuclear accident• In 2000 many high level bilateral political and technicalnegotiations with no visible results• EU was requested as mediator, several meetings in theAustrian town of Melk and in Brussels• Frequent road and border blocks in Austria by anti-nuclearnucleargroups• Overall anti-nuclearnuclear phobia created by media• Finally EU Commissionor for EU enlargement G. Verheugenbrought parties together to find way out of dead end
• After many meetings on December 12, 2000 the Melk Protocolsigned which included1. Extended Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA)2. Early and direct information system between the two countries3. Austrian monitoring station near the NPP Temelin4. Close cooperation on energy research5. No road or border blocks6. Both countries agreed to support EU enlargementFull text in• www.umweltbundesamt.at/umweltschutz/kernenergie/akw/temelin/etemelk/
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