The Mochovce nuclear power plant in Slovakia.
Greenpeace nuclear energy expert Jan Haverkamp said: “Europe has failed to learn some of the vital lessons from Fukushima and remains woefully unprepared for similar accidents. We call on the Commission and regulators to act now to ensure that European nuclear operators address these serious safety concerns.”
The report analyses national action plans that are based on a series of nuclear ‘stress tests’ [2] set up in the aftermath of the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan in March 2011. It found that several countries in Europe have failed to implement crucial protection measures against earthquakes, floods and hydrogen explosions, and the installation of proper pressure safety valves to prevent the release of radioactivity into the environment in case of accident. The lack of such valves at the Fukushima reactor forced operators to face the dilemma of risking over-pressurisation and explosion, or releasing radioactivity and therefore contaminating the environment and population.
In a communication on the Energy Union last February [3], the European Commission said the EU should have the world's safest nuclear generation by using the highest standards of safety, security, waste management and non-proliferation.
ENSREG was mandated by the European Council and the European Commission to carry out the stress tests and is expected to present the results of its own peer-review of national action plans.
For more information:
Jan Haverkamp, expert consultant on nuclear energy and energy policy, Greenpeace Central and Eastern Europe: 
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Roger Spautz, climate and energy campaigner, Greenpeace Luxembourg: 
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Greenpeace EU press desk: +32 (0)2 274 1911, 
Notes to editors:
[1] Critical Review of the Updated National Action Plans (NAcP) of the EU Stress Tests on Nuclear Power Plants, June 2015, Greenpeace e.V.
[2] Greenpeace assessments of European nuclear stress tests:
Nuclear stress tests – flaws, blind spots and complacency, June 2012, Greenpeace EU Unit.
Updated review of EU nuclear stress-tests, April 2013, Greenpeace EU Unit.
[3] Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee, the Committee of the Regions and the European Investment Bank, A Framework Strategy for a Resilient Energy Union with a Forward-Looking Climate Change Policy, Brussels (2015), COM(2015) 80 final.
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