here's a couple of comments from AP's blog that express my concerns much better than i could.
Commissioner Andris PIEBALGS

1. G.R.L. Cowan, H2 energy fan 'til ~1996 Says:
   May 18th, 2008 at 10:11 pm

   One taboo you should disregard is the one that says governments' conflict of interest in re nuclear energy must remain unspoken. With each kilotonne of uranium costing roughly $140 million Euros, and the natural gas that it replaces costing -- on the NYME, maybe in Europe prices are different -- six billion Euros, not much of that has to be royalties before the fatalities that
   inevitably attend the burning of that much gas being lucrative ones for government.

2. Mijo

and:

Commissioner Andris PIEBALGS

Last year, I was surprised to discover survey results (Eurobarometer / SOFRES in France) of European opinions about nuclear energy. According to these results, 56% of French people (53% of European people) think that nuclear energy provides more risks than advantages. (I have published an article about this survey on a French participative website
http://www.agoravox.fr/article.php3?id_article=20288 ).
Why these strange results in France ? We have the most important nuclear plant in Europe, we have good engineers, we have prestigious post-graduate schools, we have spent billion and billion of euros in nuclear research... but we still do not have any solution for nuclear waste.

No one wants to stock nuclear waste in his own area. Someones would like to bring them in Siberia, but I don't think that Russian and Siberian people would agree with this solution !

Nuclear energy is CO2 free, OK. But renewables (wind turbines, solar panels, geothermics, concentrating solar power, and others) are CO2 free and radioactive waste free. The best solution is to increase renewable energy, building isolation, efficiency, and energy savings. I have read that in 2006 in Europe, "traditional energy and renewable energy have got a EUR 62.2 M budget, when nuclear energy has got a EUR 165.2 M budget". Why do we have this difference ? Is it not preferable that renewables get the same budget then nuclear energy ?

You said that "Transparency must become synonymous with the notion of nuclear future". Yes, it must. But, currently, secret is synonymous with nuclear power. In France, during he Chernobyl cloud spell, we have got no information about radioactivity rate on food (milk, salads, mushrooms), we have got no prophylaxis, and now we pay this with an increase in thyroid cancer in the east of France. Now, what are the plans if a nuclear accident happens in France ? The army will manage the operations. As you know, the army is mute. Once again, French people will be well informed...

i shudder to think of italy trying to run nuke plants.

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