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EDF’s Hinkley C reactors get Article 37 clearance from European Commissionby I-Nuclear |
EDF
Energy’s twin Areva EPR reactors planned for construction at Hinkley
Point in Somerset, UK, have received Article 37 clearance from the
European Commission.
In
an opinion published February 7 in the Official Journal of the European
Union, the EC said that the generation, handling and disposal of
nuclear waste from the two Hinkley C EPRs “is not liable to result in a
radioactive contamination of the water, soil or airspace of another
Member State that would be significant from the point of view of
health.”
The
opinion said solid low-level radioactive waste is temporarily stored on
site before transfer to disposal facilities authorised by the United
Kingdom regulatory authorities.
Spent
fuel elements and intermediate-level solid waste are temporarily stored
on site, awaiting the future availability of a geological repository.
Reprocessing of spent fuel is not envisaged, the opinion said.
“In
the event of unplanned releases of radioactive effluents, which may
follow an accident of the type and magnitude considered in the General
Data, the doses likely to be received by the population in another
Member State would not be significant from the point of view of health,”
the EC said.
Article
37 of the Euratom Treaty requires any EC member state to report to the
EC on whether radioactive waste disposal plans could lead to radioactive
contamination in another European Union member state.
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