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Sweden’s massive emergency drill about its aging nuclear reactors

It would later include a nuclear waste accident that would force authorities to plan for evacuations and increased communication with the public…….Sweden’s parliament passed a landmark bill last June allowing the country’s nuclear reactors to be replaced at the end of their life spans instead of simply ending nuclear power when they expire.

Sweden kicks off massive nuclear accident drill, 03 February 2011 AFP / The Swedish Wire Swedish authorities on Wednesday kicked off the country’s largest-ever crisis management exercise on what to do in the event of an accident at one of its nuclear plants.

The exercise will last until April and involve some 6,000 people from 70 government and emergency agencies, businesses and police, Helena Lindberg, the director general of the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency, told reporters Wednesday.

“We have nuclear power in Sweden and have the mission as an authority to make sure we are well prepared, regardless of what happens,” she said.

The exercise scenario started with the simulation of a sudden stop early Wednesday in two of the three reactors at the OKG nuclear plant in Oskarshamn, in southeastern Sweden.

It would later include a nuclear waste accident that would force authorities to plan for evacuations and increased communication with the public…….Sweden’s parliament passed a landmark bill last June allowing the country’s nuclear reactors to be replaced at the end of their life spans instead of simply ending nuclear power when they expire.

Sweden kicks off massive nuclear accident drill

February 4, 2011 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | safety, Sweden