On the website of the national Swedish radio I found an article that a stress test of European nuclear reactors had been carried out, and that it would cost 200 billion Swedish kronas to fulfill all suggestions for increased safety. With one 1.00 SEK = 0.116155 EUR as of October 9th 2012 it makes something like 23,2 billion Euro. According to the article the stress test and suggestions are a hard critique.
However when I looked it up, the words are milder from the agency that apparently carried out the test. They say in the introduction:
There are details of what each country is doing and still could do in this report: _http://ec.europa.eu/energy/nuclear/safety/doc/swd_2012_0287_en.pdf
The Swedish article quotes Le Figaro for sayiing that non of the 58 French reactor fulfill the degree of safety which the IAEA wants to see. For example 19 French reactors do not have equipment to measure seismic activity. From what I figured out from the report it seems several other countries are in similar situations. In the report one can also read about the strong points in the safety measures at the nuclear reactors.
Let's see if the money to improve safety turns up, or if they get spent on saving banks and financing bailouts. By the way if they decide to invest more than 20 billion that should also create some jobs. Fulfilling all the requirements may give a false sense of security, still it is certainly better than doing too little.
However when I looked it up, the words are milder from the agency that apparently carried out the test. They say in the introduction:
_http://ec.europa.eu/energy/nuclear/safety/stress_tests_en.htm said:
There are details of what each country is doing and still could do in this report: _http://ec.europa.eu/energy/nuclear/safety/doc/swd_2012_0287_en.pdf
The Swedish article quotes Le Figaro for sayiing that non of the 58 French reactor fulfill the degree of safety which the IAEA wants to see. For example 19 French reactors do not have equipment to measure seismic activity. From what I figured out from the report it seems several other countries are in similar situations. In the report one can also read about the strong points in the safety measures at the nuclear reactors.
Let's see if the money to improve safety turns up, or if they get spent on saving banks and financing bailouts. By the way if they decide to invest more than 20 billion that should also create some jobs. Fulfilling all the requirements may give a false sense of security, still it is certainly better than doing too little.
