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Call for safety shut-down of Brazil’s nuclear plants

Mayor of slide-slammed city seeks precautionary closer of Brazil’s 2 nuclear plants Google News By Tales Azzoni (CP) – 4 Jan 2010 SAO PAULO, Brazil — The mayor of a mudslide-devastated city urged a precautionary shutdown of Brazil’s only nuclear power plants on Sunday due to blocked highways while the discovery of more bodies raised the region’s storm-caused death toll to 75.Angra dos

Reis Mayor Tuca Jordao said that while the nuclear power plants are not damaged or threatened, mudslides that that have killed at least 44 people in his city alone have disrupted escape routes needed to cope with any emergency.”We don’t want any risk,” said Jordao, whose municipality has about 120,000 people. “We want to avoid a future problem.”

The Canadian Press: Mayor of slide-slammed city seeks precautionary closer of Brazil’s 2 nuclear plants

January 3, 2010 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | safety, SOUTH AMERICA | antinuclear, nuclear, radioactive