Activities
Seminar “DECOMMISSIONING, A NEW CHALLENGE FOR NUCLEAR SAFETY”
6 February 2017, Brussels, European Parliament Download: The program Context The urgent problem of nuclear installations decommissioning The decommissioning of nuclear facilities is one of the major challenges of the coming decades for Europe. A … [Read More]
Concerns on transparency and regulatory independence in Hungary
A letter of NTW to the IAEA and the Convention on Nuclear Safety concerning the law changes in Hungary On 9 February 2017, Nadja Zeleznik, Chair of Nuclear Trasparency Watch wrote to Mr. Ramzi Jammal … [Read More]
Nuclear safety: ANCCLI denounces a system of governance that is deteriorating
31 January 2017 – Press Conference of ANCCLI – Nuclear safety: ANCCLI denounces a system of governance that is deteriorating. Anomalies of the EPR vessel, Financial capacities of the operators, Report on the funding … [Read More]
THE BELGIAN NUCLEAR EMERGENCY DRAFT PLAN IS INADEQUATE AND INCOHERENT
Nuclear Transparency Watch (NTW) has reviewed the draft “Nuclear and Radiological Emergency Plan for the Belgian Territory”, which was presented on 10 January 2017 to the subcommittee on Nuclear Safety of the Belgian Federal … [Read More]
Opinion on NGO participation in the ENEF conference in Bratislava
Opinion column of Philip Kearney Together with three otherNuclear Transparency Watch colleagues I attended the European Nuclear Energy Forum (ENEF) conference in Bratislava on October 3-4. This opinion piece is anevaluation of the the … [Read More]
EURATOM: the nuclear exception
An opinion column of Bender Javor, Member of the European Parliament and member of NTW Last week the European Commission made a decision on one of its investigations related to the new Nuclear Power Plant, Paks … [Read More]
A CIVIL SOCIETY NETWORK ON EP&R ISSUES
NTW is calling for a network of civil society representatives to monitor closely EP&R situation across Europe. Latest ACRO and NTW reports have highlighted several relevant findings about Emergency Preparedness and Response (EP&R) issues … [Read More]
CLIs and ANCCLI : An example of civil society involvement in governance
A French national network to guarentee transparency and nuclear safety Around the table, we often have operators, regulators and technical support organisations. But we are often missing a fourth pillar: the civil society. How … [Read More]
SEMINAR ON PUBLIC INFORMATION IN EP&R
“Addressing the requirements on public information in EP&R from BSS Directive (Articles 70 and 71)” 1st December 2016 in Luxembourg Seminar co-organised by the European Commission and NTW OBJECTIVES: EU Member States are … [Read More]
The application of the Espoo Convention to nuclear energy-related activities
The Convention on Environmental Impact Assessment in a Transboundary Context (the Espoo Convention) sets out the obligations to assess the environmental impact of certain activities at an early stage of decision making. It also … [Read More]