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vendredi 27 janvier 2012
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Contact Sylvain Iordanoff 0033679640251 Global Greens & European Green Party iordanoff@yahoo.fr Green MEPs Rebecca Harms and Yannick Jadot this week launched an independent study on the Nuclear "Stress Test", the preliminary results of which were presented by the European Commission on Thursday. Presenting the analysis, study author Wolfgang Renneberg painted a worrying picture of the weaknesses of the "Stress Test" and outlined in detail how it failed to meet requirements. The nuclear stress tests were ordered in the wake of the Fukushima nuclear disaster, to investigate the safety of existing nuclear power plants throughout Europe and to consider their ability to withstand external stresses such as natural disasters. The Greens in the Parliament were not happy with the terms of reference of the study and thus commissioned their own report on the stress test procedures. The “Stress test” of the European nuclear power plants as defined by the European Nuclear Safety Regulators Group does not meet the requirements of the EU council nor the expectations of the European public for a comprehensive safety assessment. It doesn’t provide a method for comparing the safety of the different plants, nor does it answer how safe European plants actually are. The prevention of nuclear accidents – which is the centre of the nuclear safety provisions – is practically excluded by the test. Instead, the scope of the "test” focuses on which measures are left in the case an accident does happen. But even then, the scenarios which are under review are incomplete. Internal scenarios such as fire-scenarios, electrical surges, leakage of pipes, malfunction of valves, human failures and combinations of those events are not included in the scope of the test. External scenarios like airplane crashes are also excluded. Beyond this experience the most important lesson of the Fukushima accident was that a plant and its management must be checked against well-known modern standards for nuclear safety, because in the instance of Fukushima, it was not, and consequences of such a review had not been drawn. Le Militantisme politique c’est la noblesse de la République
 Sylvain Iordanoff est membre des Verts Français, ex vice président de la commission Europe des Verts, membre de la commission "dialogue Est Ouest" au Parti Vert Européen, ex membre du conseil national des Verts et candidat à la candidature aux élections cantonales sur le canton La Rochelle 7, actuellement simple militant sans mandat interne ni externe.
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