Dutch abandon nuclear phase out. Set guidelines for new nuclear power.

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Earlier today I wrote that I expect that all of the announced "nuclear phase outs" in Europe will ultimately be overturned as global climate change worsens and begins to destroy more and more of Europe.

Of course the nation at the most risk from global climate change is the Netherlands, where sea level rise will almost surely inundate the entire nation.

Thus it comes as no surprise that the Dutch are one of the first to explicitly chuck the absurd anti-nuclear pretense into the waste heap where it belongs.

Dutch outline nuclear future.
The Dutch government has set conditions for new nuclear plants, confirming the abandonment of its earlier phase-out policy. On behalf of the economics minister, the formerly anti-nuclear minister for environment said nuclear power could reduce carbon emissions. Any new reactor must be a Generation III model with levels of safety being those of Areva's EPR, at a coastal site. Before its operation, and no later than 2016, the government must decide on a disposal strategy for existing high-level waste. Used fuel should be stored until 2025, when a choice would be made between direct disposal, reprocessing, or partitioning and transmutation. Plants should be dismantled promptly after closure, and decommissioning funds clearly earmarked. Uranium should be sourced from certified, environmentally responsible mining operations, with in-situ leaching (ISL) preferred due to their low environmental impact.
Platts 29/8/06, EPZ 29/9/06.

http://www.world-nuclear.org/news/2006/latestissue.htm