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The laissez faire position the Commission takes on Nuclear energy boarders on irresponsibility. If this internal energy source is set to decline in coming decades the EU either needs a strategy to invert that trend or to fill the gap with other energy sources.

Internal energy source? Hardly. However, I entirely agree on the need for a policy on replacement -- which in my view would be a stronger promotion of renewables. (I note what I observed in prior diaries here on ET: in Germany over the past few years, the growth in renewables balanced the fall in nuclear, but this was masked by the growth in net exports matching growth in gas.)

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.

by DoDo on Mon Feb 2nd, 2009 at 04:04:06 AM EST
What do you mean by Nuclear energy in Europe being a foreign energy source? I'm not aware of any state importing electricity from a neighbouring country.

Vencit omnia veritas.
by Luis de Sousa (luis[dot]a[dot]de[dot]sousa[at]gmail[dot]com) on Mon Feb 2nd, 2009 at 05:06:21 AM EST
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from what i understand, italy imports a staggering amount of electricity from switzerland and france.

~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~
by melo (melometa4(at)gmail.com) on Mon Feb 2nd, 2009 at 06:17:44 AM EST
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The fuel, of course.

You don't import electricity generated by power plants buring imported gas or coal, either...

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.

by DoDo on Mon Feb 2nd, 2009 at 10:57:44 AM EST
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Gas and Coal are ready to use energy vectors once they are above ground. Uranium mining is just a small part of the Nuclear electricity generation process, that doesn't produce energy, just rocks.

Vencit omnia veritas.
by Luis de Sousa (luis[dot]a[dot]de[dot]sousa[at]gmail[dot]com) on Tue Feb 3rd, 2009 at 04:30:54 AM EST
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I ask again: so what? It is essential, it stores the energy to be used, and it is imported 100%, that's all what counts when you say "internal energy source".

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.
by DoDo on Tue Feb 3rd, 2009 at 10:42:50 AM EST
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... simply inviting Australia into the EU?


I've been accused of being a Marxist, yet while Harpo's my favourite, it's Groucho I'm always quoting. Odd, that.
by BruceMcF (agila61 at netscape dot net) on Mon Feb 2nd, 2009 at 01:01:22 PM EST
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