Friday, June 24, 2011

New threat to communities: Acid test for Nuclear power plants


By Shahab Sabahi

Energy and Environment - Policy analysis research group
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) was discussing a policy for frequently assuring the safety of nuclear power plants by third party inspection. It is too early what measures would be adopted. I hope the reactor stress test would not be set as one of mandatory inspection requirement. The Chernobyl meltdown memory is still fresh. A regular stress test led to that human catastrophe. The cause of the incident was announced (as usual, the simplest conclusion!!!!) the fault of the reactor operator, a young inexperienced engineer.
Hard to buy it!!

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