Participate in the FoEE cyberaction to ask EU Commissioners Dimas and Piebalgs to reject the Italian/Slovak plans for the Mochovce nuclear power plant in Slovakia.

Surf directly to the cyber action here

• http://www.foeeurope.org/activities/Nuclear/cyberaction/

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Soon, before mid-April, the European Commission will issue its official opinion on the Italian owned utility ENEL/SE completing two nuclear reactors at the Mochovce nuclear power plant. The construction of these reactors was started more then twenty years ago, but was aborted when the money ran out.

There are a lot of concerns. Concerns with nuclear power in Slovakia in general and concerns with the Mochovce nuclear power plant in particular:

• Mochovce 3 and 4 are based on a completely outdated design. ENEL/SE and the Slovakian authorities claim it is a modern nuclear power plant, but if one examines the technical specifications, you wonder where they base that on.
• Since the time the Czechoslovak authorities issued the permit for Mochovce in the eighties a lot has happened. However, the Slovak governments insists that there are no modifications needed to finish the reactors. For this reason they now refuse to demand a full Environmental Impact Assessment from ENEL/SE for the project, an assessment which never has been fully made under Czechoslovak rule.
• In Slovakia there are insufficient arrangements for dealing with nuclear waste, nuclear decommissioning and insurance for nuclear power installations.

Although nuclear power policy is the sovereignty of member states, the European Commission has, under the EURATOM treaty, the obligation to give its opinion on nuclear building projects. Formerly, the European Commission cannot reject a plan, but they can give a "negative opinion".

Eight private banks are planning to finance Mochovce (ERSTE Bank, Dexia, KBC/CSOB, Intesa Sanpaolo, ING, Société Générale, Calyon Crédit Agricole, and Mizuho). It is more then likely that these bank will reconsider their financing plans when the European Commission expresses its concern with the project.

Send an email to EU Commissioners Piebalgs and Dimas to ask them to give a negative opinion about this project:

http://www.foeeurope.org/activities/Nuclear/cyberaction/

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Daniël Meijers
Anti-nuclear campaigner
Friends of the Earth Europe
http://www.foeeurope.org

Tel +43 1 812 57 30 43
GSM +43 699 14 2000 43

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