Nuclear decommissioning assistance
Briefing
05-04-2017
Following the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, the EU launched several nuclear decommissioning assistance programmes (NDAP) to help Bulgaria, Lithuania, and Slovakia safely close and dismantle their early Soviet-designed reactors while acceding to the EU. The NDAPs provide financial assistance for decommissioning, dismantling and waste management projects; energy-sector projects aimed at mitigating the consequences of reactor shutdowns; and projects addressing the socio-economic consequences of decommissioning. The European Commission estimates that between 1999 and 2020, financial support for the NDAP programmes will total approximately €3.8 billion.
Briefing
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- cooperation policy
- deterioration of the environment
- distribution of EU funding
- economic geography
- electrical and nuclear industries
- ENERGY
- ENVIRONMENT
- environmental policy
- environmental policy
- EU finance
- EU Member State
- EUROPEAN UNION
- GEOGRAPHY
- INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
- nuclear accident
- nuclear reactor
- nuclear safety
- radioactive waste
- third country