[New post] Expert opinion: why nuclear energy should not be included as sustainable in Europe’s green taxonomy financing.
Christina MacPherson posted: " BASE comments on the JRC report https://www.base.bund.de/SharedDocs/Stellungnahmen/BASE/DE/2021/0714_base-fachstellungnahme-jrc-bericht.html Federal Office for the Safety of Nuclear Waste Management (Bundesamt für die Sicherhei"
Expert opinion on the report of the Joint Research Center "Technical assessment of nuclear energy with respect to the‛ do no significant harm ‛criteria of Regulation (EU) 2020/852‛ Taxonomy Regulation ‛"
There are numerous reasons why the use of nuclear power is not ecologically sustainable and why this form of energy generation is therefore not part of the taxonomy regulation of the European Union ( EU ) - this is the conclusion of the Federal Office for the Safety of Nuclear Waste Management ( BASE ).
The basis for this is a specialist opinion for the Federal Environment Ministry, in which the Federal Office for Radiation Protection was also involved.
BASE statement is a reaction to the report of the Joint Research Center
The reason for this statement is the report of the so-called Joint Research Center, an EU directorate-general whose origin was nuclear research. This came to a positive assessment of nuclear power in March 2021:
According to this, the catalog of criteria of the so-called "do no significant harm" principle is met - an assessment that evaluates forms of energy production according to their environmental balance.
If the EU Commission followed this evaluation by the JRC and rated nuclear energy as an ecologically sustainable form of economic activity, it would also appear attractive as a corresponding form of financial investment and would be equated, for example, with renewable energies.
BASE statement is a reaction to the report of the Joint Research Center
The reason for this statement is the report of the so-called Joint Research Center, an EU directorate-general whose origin was nuclear research. This came to a positive assessment of nuclear power in March 2021:
According to this, the catalog of criteria of the so-called "do no significant harm" principle is met - an assessment that evaluates forms of energy production according to their environmental balance.
If the EU Commission followed this evaluation by the JRC and rated nuclear energy as an ecologically sustainable form of economic activity, it would also appear attractive as a corresponding form of financial investment and would be equated, for example, with renewable energies.
Serious nuclear accidents were not adequately assessed in the JRC report
Background: The evaluation of nuclear power is controversial at the European level. A group of technical experts came to the conclusion in 2020 that a decision in favor of the use of nuclear power as part of the taxonomy should not be made. Thereupon the Joint Research Center of the EU was commissioned to evaluate the atomic energy.
In its report, BASE now points out the following points that should be assessed negatively with regard to nuclear power:
failure to take into account the risk of major accidents,
an insufficient consideration of subsequent loads for future generations.
As a result, the report comes to the following assessment:
"The JRC report only incompletely considers the consequences and risks of the use of nuclear energy for people and the environment as well as for subsequent generations or omits them in its assessment. Insofar as it deals with them, the principles of scientific work are sometimes not correctly taken into account. The JRC report thus provides an incomplete contribution with which the sustainability of the use of nuclear energy cannot be comprehensively assessed. "
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