Saturday, March 26, 2011

France close all nuclear power plant that does not exceed the endurance

Brussels (EFE) .- The French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, has said it will close all nuclear power plants which will not exceed the endurance that the European Union (EU) will take place after the accident at the Japanese Fukushima. "We would assume the consequences immediately, and only one result for France, closure, has said Sarkozy at a press conference at the end of the European Council in Brussels.

Twenty-seven leaders pledged at that meeting to all European nuclear installations pass those "stress tests" for their safety, for example, to a hypothetical natural disaster. As explained by Sarkozy, the European Commission will be responsible for "setting the framework of controls" and the independent nuclear authorities will develop and publish the results, which will be evaluated by atomic regulators member countries.

The French president, whose country is a major European power in nuclear power, has made clear that following discussions between the leaders of the EU's decision to choose whether or not nuclear power remains in the hands of each country. He underlined also that what happened in Japan "has nothing to do with Chernobyl" and recalled that the central Fukushima without problems resisted strong earthquake that rocked the country and the problems derived from the tsunami that crippled some of their systems .

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