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*Do Europeans want a nuclear power plant in an earthquake area?*
*Tell the Commission No! Write a protest email Now!*
In early December, the European Commission will issue its official
opinion on the Bulgarian Government's plan to build a nuclear power
plant near the town of Belene in northern Bulgaria. The Belene Project
was planned in the early 1980s and has been plagued by controversy
from the start. The nuclear plant will be situated in an earthquake
area and during the last large earthquake 1977, over 120 people
died only 14 kilometres from the Belene site. As early as 1984 scientists
warned against erecting a nuclear plant at this location and in
the 1990s the plan was scrapped.
Now the Bulgarian Government has revived this hare-brained scheme
and is looking to the European Commission to provide financial support
for it. The nuclear reactors planned in Belene are of a type that
has never been built anywhere else and would be the first new Russian
reactors to be erected within the EU. The first step in this process
is an official assessment of the project by the European Commission.
If the Commission gives a green light, Belene will be eligible for
loans from Euratom and the European Investment Bank - institutions
that are funded by Europeam taxpayers. Unfortunately, that's what
is about to happen. The Commission is poised to give its approval
to this nightmare nuclear power plant.
We therefore ask you to send an email to the Commission today.
Tell them that building a nuclear power plant close to a seismic
fault is a recipe for disaster. Tell them that European citizens
don't want to see their money going to a project that increases
the likelihood of a nuclear catastrophe in Europe. Tell them to
start listening to the citizens they represent. Let the Commission
know that your opinion on Belene and other nuclear power plants
is: NO!
*Click here to send an email directly to EU commissioners Piebalgs
and Barosso from the website of Friends of the Earth Europe:
http://www.foeeurope.org/activities/Nuclear/cyberaction/
<http://www.foeeurope.org/activities/Nuclear/cyberaction>
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<http://www.foeeurope.org/activities/Nuclear/cyberaction>
Thank you,
Friends of the Earth Europe
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