EU LAW

EU Law

EU Law

Question A)

According to first statement that has been claimed by the UK Government, the decontamination units were not installed as the factory that manufactures the units was under rebuilding process. The statement seems to be valid because there are a lot of advantages of installing the decontamination units in order to minimize the risk of such accidents at nuclear plants. The decontamination unit's monitors all stages of processing the material and equipment contaminated with low- and medium- level radioactivity: decontamination, pressing, drumming etc. With the installation of decontamination units following are the aspects that reduces the risk of accidents and injuries for the workers. Radiological Decontamination services dramatically reducing the volume of high-level waste and often allowing free release of treated objects. Decontamination and Decommissioning reduces dramatically reduce the volume of contaminated waste and often allow free release of treated objects. Planned Outage Services includes scheduled decontamination support during refueling, during maintenance and upgrade operations—such as Steam Generator Replacement Projects (SGRP)—or decontamination and recovery of rooms and buildings. The statement is also valid because each country has the responsibility to ensure the safety of the nuclear factories and its employees and with the installation of decontamination units, the risk of workers injuries might have been reduced. The Nuclear Safety Directive brings into law the International Atomic Energy Agency's (IAEA's) Fundamental Safety Principles and the obligations from the Convention on Nuclear Safety. In practice, EU states already observe these and in most areas far exceed them, but some small changes might occur in each country as the directive is 'transposed' into their own legislature. One particular benefit from the legislation is that EU member states that have decided not to use nuclear energy will now have a legal basis for assurance of nuclear safety in neighbouring countries. A possible knock-on effect from this, WNN was told, is that public confidence in nuclear energy across the continent should improve. Nuclear power already provides 30% of the EU's electricity, with France leading the pack by exporting its nuclear-generated power to all of its neighbours. According to the second statement, as other countries France and Netherland are not interested for introducing the decontamination programme, UK will be put into disadvantage if it introduces the programme because of the competition among the countries and UK might face the consequences of working in much safe and healthy environment than any other country. It has been seen that France is an undeclared international nuclear dumpsite in violation of its own law, contaminating the environment above safety limits. The French authorities do not have precise information of what is in the dumpsite - how much plutonium, strontium, and other extremely long-lived and dangerous materials. There is no real solution to nuclear waste that will eliminate the threat, but the first step is to stop further illegal waste disposal, and halt the generation of more nuclear waste. And if UK took actions regarding the installation of decontamination programme, then others might be disgraced in such ...