MEPs deliberate the conditions of this year's stress tests but fail to agree on the future of nuclear energy in the EU.

EU Nuclear Power: Here Today, Gone Tomorrow?

https://api.multimedia.europarl.europa.eu/documents/20125/15532752/N001-110407-001-EN.srt

This move by green MEPs is symbolic  but not shared by everyone.

The EP is divided  on the future of EU nuclear energy.

The Fukushima disaster has left its mark

and questions the safety  of the 143 nuclear reactors in Europe.

MEPs have asked for stress tests   in the EU's nuclear power plants

The ex-president of the first independent  agency for radioactivity research

It must be independent experts  from different countries

How can I confide in the French  authorities, as good as they may be,

they are already the ones  checking the plants.

I can't see how an additional audit by  the very same experts would be a plus.

Beyond safety, it's the future of nuclear  power that has charged the debates.

Those for and against have had their say.

In the long term, Europe has to put much  greater emphasis on energy efficiency,

so reducing demand,  and on renewable energy uses

which would decrease our dependence  on nuclear power and imported energy.

In the end, MEPs could not agree on  the lessons to be taken from Fukushima.

The resolution was rejected by 300 votes  against, 264 for, and 61 abstentions.

The results of the stress tests  will be known before the end of the year.