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Current AffairsCzech Nuclear Safety Institute: EU-approved stress tests should not present a problem
After weeks of debate the European Union on Wednesday agreed on the
criteria for conducting "stress tests" on the bloc's 143 nuclear
power plants. The tests which aim to avert an accident like that at Japan's
Fukushima plant, will check nuclear plants’ preparedness in dealing with
natural disasters such as earthquakes and flooding, as well as for man-made
failures such as airplane crashes and explosions. We called Petr Brandejs,
deputy head of the Czech Institute for Nuclear Safety to find out how the
Czech Republic’s two nuclear power plants –Temelín and Dukovany would
face up to the challenge. More
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