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Nuclear Danger – message posted on Spanish reactor

‘PELIGRO NUCLEAR’ | Greenpeace International, 17 Feb 2011, ‘NUCLEAR DANGER’ is the message Greenpeace Spain took to the country’s Cofrentes nuclear energy plant yesterday as activists scaled one of the plant’s cooling towers.Greenpeace are demanding that Spain’s Nuclear Security Council refuse to renew the plant’s permit to operate – which expires on March 19 – because of the extremely poor levels of security at Cofrentes. Pedro Armestre / Greenpeace

The aging Cofrentes reactor is in bad shape. It has an endless list of bugs and unresolved security issues. Among the many weaknesses it has identified, Greenpeace has expressed concerns about the fire-fighting systems, access to the control room, the increasing radioactivity received by maintenance workers, and delays in the analysis of events and incidents…..

‘PELIGRO NUCLEAR’ | Greenpeace International

February 17, 2011 - Posted by | Uncategorized

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