LONDON - The problems at Japanese nuclear power stations are reopening the debate about nuclear safety worldwide. European Energy Commissioner, Günther Ottinger, convened Tuesday for a meeting of experts on nuclear safety of the EU to discuss the consequences of the earthquake in Japan. "Everything that was considered unthinkable, occurred in a few days," Ottinger said the German national radio, according to which the safety of older nuclear plants should be checked rigorously by refusing to rule out plant closures if necessary. "If we take it seriously and say that the incident has changed the world - and question the way in which we, as the industrial society, we looked to the security and manageability," said Ottinger, "then we can not exclude nothing. " GERMANY - The German Foreign Minister, Guido Westerwelle, said that the decision of the government in Berlin, taken last September, an average of 12 years to prolong the life of the old nuclear power stations, could be revised after the nuclear crisis underway in Japan. Environment Minister, Norbert Röttgen, has requested a reassessment of risk on the German nuclear power plants. Last Saturday, Chancellor Angela Merkel has called an emergency meeting with key ministers to discuss the consequences of the crisis of Japanese nuclear power plant in Fukushima 1, the same day in which 60 000 people formed a human chain of 45 km from Stuttgart to a nuclear power plant will remain open for the new German policy.
SWITZERLAND - Switzerland has suspended the program for renewal of its power plants.
AUSTRIA - Austrian Minister of Environment, Nikolaus Berlakovich, he returned to Brussels to ask for verification of safety of nuclear power plants in Europe. While Austria is strongly opposed nuclear power and has repeatedly called for the closure of plants in Slovenia and Slovakia.
INDIA - The Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, announced that it will be verified the safety of all nuclear reactors in India.
France - In France, the Greens have proposed to the Government for a referendum on nuclear power. MEP Daniel Cohn-Bendit said that France "must ask the question of the necessity of nuclear energy.
ITALY - Environment and Industry Committees of the House Tuesday resumed consideration of the Legislative Decree on the location of nuclear installations and sites for waste storage radioactive in Italy. The governor of Puglia, Nichi Vendola, has asked the government to withdraw the 'nuclear options', while Legambiente has launched a campaign to bring the referendum next June 12 to 13 at least 25 million people. The CGIL, "does not share the government's plan 'on nuclear program, said the secretary general, Susanna Camusso, but" will not give instructions to vote "in the referendum.
FRATTINI - For the Foreign Minister, Franco Frattini, the alarm nucleae Japanese "reopened the debate in Italy in the wrong way, without emotion that comes to reflect on things obvious and does not justify a challenged of the Italian plan. Japan has high seismic risk and other central generation, and that despite an earthquake of 9 degrees did not explode. Italy, "said the minister," is not comparable to the Japanese seismic intensity. No one has ever thought of doing a nuclear power plant in Italy in a seismic zone. In France there are dozens of nuclear power stations a few miles of our borders. All tear their hair out when an accident happens. We must think about what will happen if there equipped with the latest nuclear energy, and then clean energy. " A Frattini has indirectly responded to the radical Emma Bonino, vice president of the Senate, "Invest 30 billion euro to get 4% of energy twenty years does not make sense economically. " "In light of what is happening in Japan, a huge question mark is projected on the Italian nuclear program," said the leader of Alliance for Italy, Francesco Rutelli.
TURKEY - The Turkish government's position is similar to Italian. "We are determined to continue the construction of nuclear plants", informed the Minister of Energy, Taner Yildiz. Turkey plans to build and operate nuclear plants 2:00 to 3:00 by 2023.
SECURITIES - Meanwhile, the Paris Stock Exchange under the French nuclear giant Areva loses 9.5%, and EDF (Energie de France) slides 4.6%. A Piazza Affari Enel yields 0.82% on fears of a stop nuclear programs in Italy. In Frankfurt E-ON and RWE, which control most of the nuclear power plants in Germany, down more than 3% from
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