Situation of the NPP in Spain

WHAT IS AMAC?

- OBJECTIVES: SAFETY OF THE FACILITIES

PLANS FOR NUCLEAR EMERGENCY

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

- 8 NUCLEAR SITES: 7 WITH NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS

1 WITH M & L RADIOACTIVE WASTE

- 70 MUNICIPALITIES

- 80.000 INHABITANTS

- RURAL OR SEMI-RURAL AREAS

Territory and nuclear facilities

• Previous reality

• Staying away from the yes/no debate on nuclear energy

• Risk consciousness

• Necessity of cohabitation with the facility

• Future foreseeing

• Safety guarantee for the future

Municipal responsibilities

- Municipalities as a means of information

- There is a political obligation for representatives to participate

- There is a legal obligation for the administration:

- General competences in environment, public health, civil protection and territorial planning - Specific competences in urbanism and building license as

well as in environmental issues- Participation in some other proceedings: nuclear facilities authorization and environmental impact assessment - Direct responsibility and participation in the Emergency Planning

Local governance vs. Nuclear energy

• Three basic pillars to earn people trust:

• Safety: nonnegotiable concept & guarantee of nuclear policies

• Information / Participation. Necessary policy

• Economic development. Guarantee for the future

NUCLEAR MUNICIPAL PARTNERSHIP  

MUNICIPAL DEMANDS:

- INCREASE OF INFORMATION AND PARTICIPATION

- MEANS FOR EMERGENCY NEGOTIATION

- LIMITATION OF WASTE STORAGE IN THE NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS

- ALTERNATIVE ECONOMICAL DEVELOPMENT

 

Information and transparency

The confidence as the basis for information: whoever receives the information has to believe in it.

Transparency. Information must be fully givenAvailability. Permanently on-lineObjective. No convincing should be neededComprehensible. Difficulty of technical terms vs. Public

access to the information

Participation

- Public participation in DMP as a proceeding for a solution and also as a guarantee for long term governance

- The Aarhus agreement and other experiences within the EU and western countries: Wellenberg, Stola-Mona, La Hague, Erajoki, etc.

- Participation implies: - Constant exchange of information- Information credibility - Stakeholders involvement - Coherence of the debate - Efficiency in the relations among Administrations

- Social-scientific dialogue - Final consensus for decisions

Gráfico 2.1. Opinion about real risk and what kind of risk

Little dangerous18,4%

No dangerous5,5%

Ns/Nc1,4%

Big explosión 10,4%

Gas emission 14,1%

Radioactivity emission

27,0%

Health risk8,1%

Environmental pollution

6,1%

Very dangerous 39,9%

Rather dangerous34,8%

Ns/nc7,5%

Other1,5%Fuente: CERES, 2003

Gráfico 2.6. Do you think that NPP pollute the environment?

Ns/Nc4,6%Nothing

15,4%

Little21,1%

Rather30,4%

Much28,5%

Emergency planningEmergency planning

Ns/Nc11,2%

Doesn't exist17,4%

Yes, but I've only heard

about it 37,8%

Yes, I know it33,6%

¿Is there any emergency planning in your region? ¿Do you know it?

RADWASTERADWASTE

What is your opinion about the safety ok radioactive waste?

Fuente: CERES, 2003

Ns/Nc7,7%

No dangerous2,1%Little

dangerous4,7%

Rather dangerous

27,4% Very dangerous

58,1%

Do you know if a plan for radwaste management exist currently?

Ns/Nc75,6%

No, it doesn't exist9,5%

Yes, it exist14,9%

RADWASTE

Gráfico 7.1. Do you think that there is enough information about NPP?

Ns/Nc0,9%

No, not enough74,2%

Yes, enough24,9%

Gráfico 7.10. What kind of information would you like to get?

1,2

% 98,8%

79,6% 18,0% 2,4%

73,9% 23,1% 3,0%

57,3% 39,0% 3,7%

84,6% 13,9% 1,5%

0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%

Sobre seguridad ymedio ambiente

Sobre producción yexplotación

Sobre inversiones en elmunicipio

Sobre gestión deresiduos

Otras

Sí les interesaría No les interesaría Ns/Nc

Gráfico 7.14. ¿Do you think that the existence of a local commission of information could be useful?

Ns/Nc7,8%No, it wouldn't

be useful12,4%

Yes, it would be useful79,8%

AMAC’S PROPOSAL

OBJECTIVES:

1. - ACCEPTANCE OF POLITICAL RESPONSIBILITIES

2. - TO SPREAD CONFIDENCE

3. - TO CREATE STRUCTURES FOR THE DEBATE

4. - TO MAKE TRANSPARENCY AND PARTICIPATION

POSSIBLE

5. - TO DEFINE A FUTURE FOR RADIOCTIVE WASTE

Local Commissions of Information•MUNICIPAL INICITIVE •FUNCTION:

- To know the incidences of the nuclear power plant

both planned and no planned (energy production, waste management, etc)

• OBLIGATIONS:

- Transmit the information to the population of the municipalities

- Take care of the requests of information of the citizens obtaining the necessary data from the operating company and the responsible institutions of the activity of the NPP.

- Organize events for the consequence of its aims like meetings, conferences, seminaries, etc..

IMPROVING PARTICIPATION.RISING THE KNOWLEGE

• MAYORS:

- Facilitate the access to the information in nuclear matter to the mayors and councilors that belong to AMAC to improve their knowledge in nuclear items

• CITIZENS:

- Surveys show that there is not enough knowledge in what is the nuclear energy and the institutions that regulate it in the population that lives in a 10 kilometers maximum radius of the seven existing NPP in the Spanish territory

So AMAC organize with the support of CSN and ENRESA:

- Seminaries in the different Spanish nuclear zones for the population living in that areas.

- Visits to the Information Center of the Spanish nuclear institutions.

Spanish COWAM programme

• Based on the results of COWAM I, the project will make specific to our country and our culture the base of experience in this field in the matter of radioactive waste management.

• AIMS:

- Elaboration of a methodology for the decision making process connected with the definition, location and search of locations for the radioactive waste

- Creation and relation of a network of actors

- Constitution of a several work groups integrated by representatives of the local world and other involved administrations, scientific and expert of Universities

STRATEGY FOR THE FUTURE

 - PRESSURE BEFORE THE GOVERNMENT AND THE PARLIAMENTARY GROUPS: POLITICAL DECISION

- COLLABORATION WITH THE CSN AND THE ADMINISTRATION FOR THE CREATION OF THE LOCAL COMMISSIONS

- SELFINVOLVEMENT IN THE RADWASTE NATIONAL DEBATE ACCEPTING THEIR ROL AND POLITICAL RESPONSABILITIES

- PARTICIPATION IN BOTH EUROPEAN AND SPANISH COWAM WITH THE PURPOSE OF DEFINING A SPANISH METHODOLOGY WORKING WITH OTHER ACTORS