TEPCO's technical center in No. 3 of Fukushima "Some nuclear power plants will not pass safety tests," he said Guenther Oettinger, EU Commissioner for Energy, on the eve of yesterday's extraordinary meeting in Brussels called to discuss nuclear safety in Europe . Words that have startled the political world and industry, despite the assurances top post of Commissioner himself "optimistic about the possibility that all EU countries participate in the stress test on power in the second half of 2011." "Perhaps the Commissioner any information that we have," said Stephan Kurth, nuclear scientist Öko-Institut in Germany.
According to Christian Taillebois, director of external relations of the European Atomic Forum (FORATOM) "It is too early to talk about failure." The main hazards on the criteria of safety, according to experts, are from the reactors of the neighboring countries such as Russia and Belarus.
From here it is the intention of Oettinger to launch a "European coordination" also extended to the "neighbors". But according to Greenpeace International to frighten not only the Russian reactors only. Jan Haverkamp, nuclear expert, said that in Europe there are mainly five groups of reactors, and each has some special types of risk.
The first group (VVER 440) is present in 12 plants scattered throughout the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary, and is characterized by poor defenses against external agents. Then there are the CANDU reactors (2 and 2 working on projects in Romania), a Canadian technology and very dangerous in case of sudden stop, so that in the UK are banned.
Then there are the Gass Cooled Reactors (GCR), the older and present on a massive scale just in Britain. Can not be converted and France belong to the past. Those of the fourth group use the same technology of the 7 closed in Germany in recent days, more than 30 years old and still present in Spain and France.
Finally, there Tamelin the reactor, the only one in the Czech Republic against which Greenpeace has long battled a series of technical glitches in the event of fatal accident. " At least six plants for a total of 14 reactors, which according to Greenpeace has a poor safety standards. In January 2011, the European Nuclear Society, which includes 23 countries producing nuclear energy between the EU and Russia, there were 195 plants in operation and 19 under construction.
France tops the list (58), followed by Russia (32) and the United Kingdom (19). The fact is that by the end of 2011 should be carried out stress tests proposed by Brussels. But if the French Energy Minister Eric Besson said that "France will develop a proposal for a common safety standards for nuclear installations, the European Union" and "We are leading in Europe and the world in nuclear power generation" , the chairman of the Environment of the European Parliament, German Jo Leinen, dampens optimism: "These stress tests have feet of clay.
There is no legal basis to implement the consequences after testing in the event of poor security of a system. " According to Leinen takes stronger action, especially given the € 500 million invested annually by the EU in nuclear power. The first step? "We update as soon as the Euratom Treaty of 1957." 
According to Christian Taillebois, director of external relations of the European Atomic Forum (FORATOM) "It is too early to talk about failure." The main hazards on the criteria of safety, according to experts, are from the reactors of the neighboring countries such as Russia and Belarus.
From here it is the intention of Oettinger to launch a "European coordination" also extended to the "neighbors". But according to Greenpeace International to frighten not only the Russian reactors only. Jan Haverkamp, nuclear expert, said that in Europe there are mainly five groups of reactors, and each has some special types of risk.
The first group (VVER 440) is present in 12 plants scattered throughout the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary, and is characterized by poor defenses against external agents. Then there are the CANDU reactors (2 and 2 working on projects in Romania), a Canadian technology and very dangerous in case of sudden stop, so that in the UK are banned.
Then there are the Gass Cooled Reactors (GCR), the older and present on a massive scale just in Britain. Can not be converted and France belong to the past. Those of the fourth group use the same technology of the 7 closed in Germany in recent days, more than 30 years old and still present in Spain and France.
Finally, there Tamelin the reactor, the only one in the Czech Republic against which Greenpeace has long battled a series of technical glitches in the event of fatal accident. " At least six plants for a total of 14 reactors, which according to Greenpeace has a poor safety standards. In January 2011, the European Nuclear Society, which includes 23 countries producing nuclear energy between the EU and Russia, there were 195 plants in operation and 19 under construction.
France tops the list (58), followed by Russia (32) and the United Kingdom (19). The fact is that by the end of 2011 should be carried out stress tests proposed by Brussels. But if the French Energy Minister Eric Besson said that "France will develop a proposal for a common safety standards for nuclear installations, the European Union" and "We are leading in Europe and the world in nuclear power generation" , the chairman of the Environment of the European Parliament, German Jo Leinen, dampens optimism: "These stress tests have feet of clay.
There is no legal basis to implement the consequences after testing in the event of poor security of a system. " According to Leinen takes stronger action, especially given the € 500 million invested annually by the EU in nuclear power. The first step? "We update as soon as the Euratom Treaty of 1957."
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