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| EU to 'stress test' its nuclear plants |
| 2011-03-15 |
| Here's hoping they do a better job stress testing them than that charade they performed on the banks THE European Union has reached agreement to conduct "stress tests" on the continent's nuclear power plants, the bloc's energy chief Guenther Oettinger says. I'm all for nuclear safety, but as Bobby notes in the related post below, the Euros have more important things to do than to see if a reactor near Paris can withstand a tsunami. Oettinger said the tests would be conducted on a "voluntary" basis. He said they would look at whether the 153 reactors housed in half as many plants across the continent could resist earthquakes, tsunamis and terrorist attacks. "We want to look at the risk and safety issues in the light of events in Japan," he said. The European commission spoke after emergency talks between ministers, national nuclear safety chiefs and industry leaders that were hastily called amid rising public concern in the wake of Japan's nuclear emergency. Oettinger said there were no existing EU rules to make the tests binding. "Recognised experts will be responsible for carrying out the tests in the course of this year," he added |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #1 The USSR was doing a stress test when Chernobyl happened. Think deeply before doing it. |
| Posted by: Water Modem 2011-03-15 13:41 |