Sunday, March 13, 2011

CSN Director warns that a nuclear accident could be serious

Security technical director of the Nuclear Safety Council (CSN), Isabel Mellado, assured that if the Japanese central Fukushima, where today there has been a blast, still without power in the coming hours, "would be an accident serious nuclear. " Mellor explained that the earthquake of 8.8 magnitude on the Richter scale that hit Japan yesterday left without power at this power plant with six boiling water reactors, similar to that of the Spanish plant of Garona (Burgos) .

Well, the tsunami that came later, has indicated the safety director of CSN, "damaged the diesel generators that supply electricity when the plant loses its power abroad." This "left the plant in a difficult situation," he continued, while "meant that there was no electricity to activate the security systems" of the plant.

As a result, "the discharge of the nuclear reactor pressure has been increasing pressure in the containment building, the grounds surrounding the reactor, and to maintain the values \u200b\u200bwithin the limits, you have had to make small downloads radioactivity. " However, the expert stressed that the latest data of radioactivity in the CSN have been reported were "not worrying", but clarified "that are not recent data, but the indices that had for several hours." Still, Mellado Fukushima pointed out that if "continues many more hours without power, still losing coolant and continues down its water level, this would result in cooling of the plant would produce degraded and fusion fuel." "So yes it would result in a serious accident," concluded the expert.

The Nuclear Safety Council has set up a monitoring group of the nuclear accident in Japan, and its managers and technicians are gathered from early morning in the emergency room of the CSN.

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