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2011.
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| Summary/Abstract |
THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION'S RESPONSE to the Fukushima nuclear disaster is at odds with conventional notions of a cumbersome EU bureaucracy. The decisions to conduct stress tests on European nuclear power plants (NPPs) and develop a new set of nuclear safety standards were made very quickly. A lively debate is underway at the expert level on how the EU energy sector should develop considering Japan's bitter experience. The debate takes place at a time when the European Commission is working on a document laying down guidelines for EU energy policy to 2050, and in this sense it can influence the EU's long-term strategy, which is also important to Russia.
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