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| A safe nuclear plant 30/03/2011 |
| (2011-03-30) |
| Last updated: 2011-04-01 16:20 EET |
The Cernavoda nuclear plant in South-Eastern Romania, built on Canadian CANDU technology, runs no risk of seeing a disaster similar to that in Fukushima. This is what experts in the field said, in a hearing in the Romanian Senate.
They analysed to what extent the Romanian plant is ready to face a high-intensity earthquake, as well as what the authorities’ emergency response would be. The Earth Physics Institute claims that Romania has not seen quakes higher than 7.5 degrees on the Richter scale and that the plant in Cernavoda was built to withstand an 8-degree earthquake, Nuclearelectrica manager Pompiliu Budulan said.
The plant also has the necessary cooling systems and large water tanks, as well as normal and emergency power systems. Under these circumstances, Cernavoda and Nuclearelectrica officials give assurances that nuclear safety is 100% guaranteed, with back-up plans for quakes and for the less likely ‘’drying up of the Danube River’’.
The two existing reactors, accounting for 20% of the country’s power consumption are to be joined by reactors 3 and 4, licensed by the European Commission and slated to be built in 2018. Nuclearelectrica manager Pompiliu Budulan claims that otherwise Romania could come to rely on foreign energy sources.
The country currently covers 60% of the necessary energy amount from coal-powered plants, and authorities aim at tilting the balance to non-polluting energies. Nuclear safety, however, remains at the fore. Cernavoda reactors are among the newest in the EU, Nuclearelectrica director Ionel Bucur says. He adds that the latter are very safe and among the best in the world. Ionel Bucur:
‘’What we have managed to develop until now is quite solid and the project is quite well designed to cope with such challenges. We will definitely improve these safety conditions. Based on acquired experience, we will run the tests that the European Commission also requires.’’
Over the coming period, a joint committee, made up of representatives of the National Commission for the Control of Nuclear Activities, of Parliament and of the Ministry of Economy, will run specific tests to analyse all safety structures in the Cernavoda plant. The conclusions will be laid down in a report that will be submitted to the European Commission in the second half of the year.
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