The Assembly’s own role as the parliamentary forum of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), and the latter’s Nuclear Safety Account, should by fully used for these purposes.ġ. It also highlights the need to assist the Chernobyl region and Ukraine – but also hard-hit neighbouring countries – in overcoming the health, social and environmental consequences of the disaster.įinally, the report recommends close monitoring of progress reached by the international community and Ukraine on these Chernobyl-related issues and, more widely, in improving safety at similar reactors in other parts of Europe. The report goes on to ask Council of Europe member states to secure the near-complete financing of a new Chernobyl Shelter, to be ready by the end of the decade. It asks that alternative ways be considered, especially the reduction of energy waste throughout the economy, the upgrading of safety and efficiency in the country’s other thermal and nuclear plants and the diversification of energy supplies.
The report doubts, however, whether the best remedy lies in the construction, with considerable financial assistance from the international community, of new nuclear reactors at Khmelnitsky and Rovno – known as the ‘K2/R4’ project. The report, from the Assembly’s Committee on Economic Affairs and Development, commends Ukraine on its closure of the Chernobyl Plant in December 2000 and recognises the new energy situation resulting from this shut-down, not least in view of the country’s economic difficulties.
Rapporteur: Lord Ponsonby, United Kingdom, Socialist Groupįifteen years after the Chernobyl catastrophe in 1996, the Assembly follows up earlier reports on this subject, this time concentrating on the remaining financial challenges and policy choices facing Ukraine and the international community. Fifteen years after Chernobyl: financing a lasting solutionĬommittee on Economic Affairs and Development
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