Congress yesterday put the bell on the cat. English nuclear power plants can extend their useful life beyond 40 years, a decision supported by most parties and gives a complete turnaround to the policy pursued by the Executive since Zapatero took power in 2004. After a last-minute amendment in the Senate led by the parliamentary group (PP, PSOE, PNV, CIU, Entesa and JWG) will help overcome the age limit until yesterday stipulated by law and is left to an opinion of Nuclear Safety Council (CSN) the continuity of the reactors. Always based on safety and radiation protection of the plants. In the morning the Senate and the Congress later gave value to the amendment.
The pact was established under a compromise amendment under the umbrella of the Sustainable Economy Act. In the new text disappears reference to the 40 year life of the plants, which involves eight nuclear reactors and their owners must request the extension of life under the law. The decision generated
reactions of all kinds. The first, on whether the change would affect the power of the Garonne, the oldest and that he ended his life this year at age 40, according to the previous legislation. CiU and PNV, the authors of the amendment, disagreed in interpreting the scope of agreed standards in the Senate Bill on nuclear Sustainable Economy, because while Catalan nationalists believe they would extend the life of Garona, Basques deny .
PSOE: "no change to the criterion"
For its part, the Prime Minister, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, denied that the policy has changed on nuclear energy after allegations of left-wing parties and the PP have modified their policy on nuclear energy. Upon arrival at the Congress of Deputies, Zapatero was asked if the executive had changed energy policy. "No," replied the Prime Minister categorically. The PSOE
insisted that no change. In the same vein as Zapatero had said hours before his Minister of Industry, Commerce and Tourism, Miguel Sebastian, who noted that the executive holds the same nuclear policy. "We always said that after 40 years the first word has the CSN and, from there, the Government decides on the basis of a safe, economic, social and environmental issues," said Sebastian.
For its part, the PP's parliamentary spokesman in Congress, Soraya Sáenz de Santamaría said on support from the PSOE to the amendment to the "total lack of discretion" of government energy policy after change "up to seven times" its position. Saenz de Santamaria recalled that after these corrections the Executive socialist shown to be "pro-nuclear, some nuclear and non-nuclear at the same time." Sáenz de Santamaría
denounced the "swings" in the processing of the LES. "There is a single criterion, depends on who you ask and what questions a day," he said, turning to an amendment of the PSOE was in Congress he introduced the limit of 40 years.
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