Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 a (new)
(The Ignalina decommissioning programme is approaching a highly challenging stage – dismantling of the graphite reactor core Unit 1 and Unit 2. Failure to guarantee sufficient funding would result in the 4-year suspension of the Unit 2 dismantling, would eventually increase significantly the overall cost of the entire project and jeopardise the nuclear safety of Europe. Skilled workforce would be lost and the – already relatively poor and multi-ethnic –8a. Calls for the EU’s contribution to the Ignalina Programme in the new MFF to be increased from EUR 552 million to EUR 780 million in order to ensure orderly and uninterrupted process of dismantling and decontamination of reactors and to prevent radiological risks. Or. en region of Lithuania.)