Nuclear weapons must climb a 70% accident insurance
Nuclear power plants are exempt from the Environmental Liability Act, as the damage in case of accidents is too high. In its place, the international conventions in Paris and Brussels-signed by Spain, set a minimum liability of 700 million and that each country to decide whether the other 500 million covers the state or each floor. In 2007, the Government transposed these standards through a reform of the Nuclear Energy Act of 1964. Then it was preparing a law, but grounded its passage and adapted to Spanish law the amount of 700 million. It has now taken up the text and the number rises to 1,200 million (71% more).
In the event that insurers do not give guarantees for the amount of pre-draft law stated that insurers Spaniards do not have sufficient capacity to provide security “- the Consortium Compensation Insurance will pay the rest.
The amendment of the law coincides with the debate on the extension Garoña the plant owned by Endesa and Iberdrola to 50% with license until July 5. As we approach the day that the government should announce that if the legislature closes or extending your life and postpone the discussion beyond the next election, intensifies the pressure for and against the plant.
On one side, full of chambers, comprising the 88 chairpersons of chambers of commerce in Spain, at Valencia yesterday approved a statement, “unanimously” against the closure of the plant. Also the People’s Party insisted that should remain open, as the Nuclear Safety Council (CSN) has supported its continuation over 10 years. The plant opened in 1971, is the oldest of the Spanish fleet.
The works of the central Garoña stated that if the president of the Government, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, finally decided to suspend the activity in the primary “ideological bias”, which would damage “severely” the regulatory function of CSN.
A spoke in favor of closing the Madrid director of Greenpeace International Gerd Leipold, who noted that “the world looks to Zapatero,” and that unless the nuclear decommissioning lose their “green credit.” Leipold charged against nuclear power and Greenpeace founder Patrick Moore, who visited Madrid days before the Forum for Nuclear guest: “Just listen to him because he was in Greenpeace. He is a spectacle.” Moore, however, argued that “the world is now realizing that nuclear energy is the future.”
Moore listed the number of countries have plans to build nuclear power plants in the U.S. and China to Finland. And included his own, Canada. Although Monday night, the province of Ontario announced it was suspending the planned construction of two reactors, because of uncertainty about the costs of electricity produced.
.