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Nuclear power regulation becomes political minefield

Nuclear power regulation becomes political minefield

Deutsche Welle 13.07.2009

A short circuit that led to an automatic shutdown at the Kruemmel nuclear power plant in northern Germany sparked a debate over who should oversee nuclear power operations and how tight regulation should be.

The malfunction was the second such incident in several days at the plant in northern Germany, which had only just re-opened after two years of repairs following a malfunction in a transformer that had caused a fire and a shutdown.

Vattenfall, the power plant’s operator, has since said it failed to install an important safety sensor, and that all of Kruemmel’s 80,000 fuel rods had to be checked after some appeared to be defective.

July 16, 2009 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Germany, politics | antinuclear, nuclear, radiation, radioactive, uranium