Thursday, March 17, 2011

France believes that nuclear risks are more serious in Japan

The president of the Nuclear Safety Authority (ASN) from France, André-Claude Lacoste, said the nuclear plant accident in Fukushima Japan might be level 5 or 6 on a scale of 7, ie over Level 4 has admitted Japan. "I have a feeling we're at least at level 5 and maybe 6" which has exceeded the level of the U.S.

central "Three Mile Island without going to the Chernobyl" Lacoste said in a press conference in noting that one can not "exclude" is attained top step of a disaster. French expert on nuclear security said there was "no doubt that there has been a core principle of fusion reactors 1 and 3 of the plant, and also the number 2, and predicted that" we are at the beginning of a crisis that could last weeks.

" The ASN said in a statement that "overall, radioactive waste in the environment are important," after the earthquake and subsequent tsunami that has been Japan, which has had "an impact on a dozen nuclear reactors." "In light of advances in the (...) meltdown radioactive releases can become much more important" in terms of the strength of the concrete structure surrounding the reactor core.

The French ASN recalled that the Japanese authorities have ordered the evacuation of people within a radius of 20 km around the plant and warned that it is necessary to take "long term" to "protect the population and the environment in the area affected. " On the other hand, Lacoste said "it is extraordinarily difficult to imagine the same in France, a country with 58 nuclear reactors, that is three more than Japan.

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