Experts tasked with assessing whether the European Union should label nuclear power as a green investment have concluded that the fuel qualifies as sustainable and does no more harm to human health or to the environment than other electricity production technologies already included in the bloc’s taxonomy, according to a leaked report seen by NucNet.
According to the Joint Research Centre’s (JRC) draft assessment of nuclear, measures to control and prevent potentially harmful impacts on human health and the environment are in place to ensure a very low impact of the use of nuclear energy.
Storage of nuclear waste in deep geologic formations is deemed “appropriate and safe”, the report added, although it noted that “no long-term operational experience is presently available as technologies and solutions are still in demonstration and testing phase”.
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