Nuclear Transparency Watch is a European network that promotes a citizen watch on nuclear safety and transparency. The network was launched in 2013 after a call of Members of the European Parliament from different political origins. Nuclear Transparency Watch looks at all activities of the nuclear cycle, including: outsourcing, policies for plant life-time extension, emergency preparedness and liability issues, costs of nuclear safety and radioactive waste management.
Activities
Honey, can you please bring the waste down? German radioactive waste licensing authority looking for its role in waste research
Article by Jan Haverkamp, 05 March 2019 On 30 January, the German radioactive waste licensing authority BfE held a workshop in Berlin with a range of stakeholders to discuss its research strategy. NTW member … [Read More]
Consultation open: FRANCE Reactor Life-time extension beyond 40 years
Consultation process open also to public outside of France until end March– still some questions remaining Jan Haverkamp, 27 February 2019 In Europe, we are currently in an active debate about how the … [Read More]
Documentation
New report for the European Parliament demands action on transboundary nuclear safety and nuclear liability
by Jan Haverkamp, 13 February 2019 The petition committee of the European Parliament (PETI) received over the last years several large petitions expressing concern about transboundary nuclear issues in countries like Belgium, the Czech … [Read More]
New report by Greenpeace: The global Crisis of Nuclear Waste
Authors: Pete Roche, Bertrand Thuillier, Bernard Laponche, Miles Goldstick, Hideyuki Ban and Robert Alvarez Greenpeace commissioned some of the world’s leading experts on nuclear waste to produce an overview of the current status of … [Read More]
Media
NTW and EEB leave European Nuclear Energy Forum (ENEF) and call for its termination
On 28 November, Nuclear Transparency Watch (NTW) and the European Environmental Bureau (EEB) informed the European Council and the European Commission of their decision to suspend cooperation with and participation in the European … [Read More]
Controversial amendments of Nuclear Energy Act: The Hungarian government silently backed off, but independent nuclear oversight is still in peril
The Hungarian government furtively withdrew the two most controversial changes of the Nuclear Energy Act. These amendments passed in December 2016 allowed the government to bypass with a simple decree the valid permits of … [Read More]