EU Trending Toward Nuclear Energy. By Zoltan Dujisin, IPS, May 24, 2008. "EU seems to be backing nuclear energy as the response to global warming and gas dependency, but civic groups warn that safety and waste processing should be preconditions for the industry's growth. These issues were debated in Prague May 22-23 at the second European Nuclear Energy Forum, a European Union initiative to discuss opportunities and risks of nuclear energy. Civic groups criticised their extremely low representation at the event, seen by them as a gathering of nuclear energy supporters lobbying the EU... 'We all share the (EU) objective of reducing greenhouse emissions by 20 percent by 2020,' Nicole Fontaine, a European Parliamentarian, told participants. 'Although there are many solutions such as renewable energy, reality dictates we use nuclear energy, which covers 32 percent of European energy needs'... But the whole of the EU is not going nuclear, said Patricia Lorenz from Friends of the Earth. EU members such as Spain, Sweden, Belgium, Germany and Austria all have doubts about nuclear power."
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