European Union - Nuclear Facilites to Undergo Stress Testing

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Nuclear Stress-Test Details Needed ?Soon,? EU Leaders Say

<cite class="byline"> By Jonathan Stearns and Ewa Krukowska - Mar 25, 2011 10:42 AM ET
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European Union leaders ordered the details of planned EU-wide safety checks on nuclear power plants to be drawn up ?as soon as possible? and vowed to press neighboring countries to participate.
The EU government heads called for a ?comprehensive and transparent risk and safety assessment? of the region?s 143 atomic plants following the nuclear accident in Japan. The political difficulty of the task ahead was highlighted when Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said the subject provoked a ?real storm? at the Brussels summit.
?It?s not enough to deal with the safety of nuclear reactors only at a national level,? German Chancellor Angela Merkel said today at the 27-nation EU meeting. ?We need to agree on the highest level of safety.?

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Re: European Union - Nuclear Facilites to Undergo Stress Testing

EU Agrees To Carry Out Nuclear Stress Tests

• <small>MARCH 25, 2011, 1:08 P.M. ET</small>

Complete update: http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20110325-709801.html

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BRUSSELS (Dow Jones)--European Union leaders Friday agreed to carry out continent-wide "stress tests" for nuclear plants until the end of the year, but fault lines remain within the bloc with Eastern European member states concerned about the potential for pricey upgrades.
And although no guidelines were given on enforceable consequences for any facility found to be unsafe, French President Nicholas Sarkozy unexpectedly said his country would close any reactors that failed the tests.
"We've drawn the lesson from the Japanese accidents at Fukushima to carry out unanimous stress tests," German Chancellor Angela Merkel said at a summit here, adding it isn't enough to deal with nuclear safety on a national level as Germany does, but that this needs to be done on a European and international level.
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"It has only been said that if there are weaknesses, then we need to act," Merkel said. "It will be made public, and from that the corresponding discussion will arise."