Proposal for a Council Directive on the management of spent fuel and radioactive waste

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Price FREE Publisher European Commission Publication date 03 November 2010 ISBN COM(2010)618

Publication synopsis On 3 November 2010, the European Commission proposed a Directive which sets safety standards for disposing spent fuel and radioactive waste from nuclear power plants as well as from medicine or research. In the Directive, EU Member States are asked to present national programmes, indicating when, where and how they will construct and manage final repositories aimed at guaranteeing the highest safety standards. With the Directive, internationally agreed safety standards become legally binding and enforceable in the European Union.

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