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| Media Headlines 15/03/2011 |
| (2011-03-16) |
| Last updated: 2011-03-17 11:49 EET |
The nuclear crisis in Japan, triggered by the 8.9 magnitude earthquake that hit that county last week, causes concern across the world, especially in those countries that operate nuclear power plants. The nuclear safety agency in France upgraded the accident in Fukushima to level 6 on the international nuclear events scale of 1 to 7.
“Are we on the verge of nuclear disaster?” wonders the daily ROMANIA LIBERA, which writes that the accident at the Fukushima nuclear power plant, damaged by the quake and the ensuing tsunami, was followed by many fires, creating a state of panic in the region. According to the same daily, the new explosions fuel fears of radioactive contamination in the archipelago and in neighboring countries such as Russia and China.
“A global nuclear catastrophe is just around the corner after the new explosion in Fukushima,” writes the daily GANDUL. The daily also quotes experts who believe that the accident in Chernobyl of April 1986 was even more serious that the nuclear crisis in Japan. According to the newspaper GANDUL, Germany announced the imminent closure of 7 nuclear reactors and, following public pressure, chancellor Angela Mekel initiated a process of verification of all nuclear power plants, which requires the closure of reactors that have been operating since 1980.
The daily GANDUL also writes that the US is concerned with the lack of emergency plans in 26 countries that hold nuclear power plants. In the coming weeks earthquake resistance, seismic waves and terrorist attack tests will be carried out at all the nuclear power plants across the EU member states, the European Commissioner for Energy, Gunther Oettinger announced, quoted by the daily EVENIMENTUL ZILEI. Europe starts war against nuclear energy, writes the daily JURNALUL NATIONAL, which recalls that 150 reactors are operating in the EU.
France is a supporter of nuclear energy and operates 58 reactors. Bulgaria needs to re-draft documentation for the project of the nuclear power plant in Belene. According to the daily JURNALUL NATIONAL, the Romanian state-run company Nuclearelectrica has given assurances that the nuclear power plant in Cernavoda, in the south east of Romania, can withstand quakes measuring 8 degrees on the Richter scale. Quakes of the magnitude of that which has recently shaken Japan never occur in Romania.
The newspaper JURNALUL NATIONAL recalls that the Green Party in Romania has called for the gradual closure of units in Cernavoda and for banning the construction of new nuclear power units. The power plant in Cernavoda uses the Canadian technology Candu-6 running on natural uranium and heavy water. At present two reactors are operational, providing 17-18% of the power needed in Romania.
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