Germany, Nukes not Green

Posted: 22nd January 2022

Germany’s Federal Office for the Safety of Nuclear Waste Management (BASE) has rejected plans by the European Commission to classify nuclear power as “sustainable” in its taxonomy and warned against recognising investments in its as “green”, according to a dpa report carried by Handelsblatt. In a BASE analysis presented on Wednesday, the Office said labelling nuclear power investments as sustainable was“incomprehensible”. The European Commission is “guided exclusively by the supposedly positive contribution of nuclear energy to climate protection”and disregards the view that it is not sustainable, BASE wrote. The EU assessment gives far too little attention to significant criteria, such as the risk of nuclear accidents and the difficulties involved in disposing of nuclear waste, the Federal Office stated. There are also many unanswered safety questions about new types of reactors and possible extensions of the service life of existing nuclear reactors that the Commission has not answered, it added. Clean Energy Wire 13th Jan 2022  https://www.cleanenergywire.org/news/german-authority-rejects-eu-nuclear-plans-commission-leader-defends-taxonomy-proposal