AKW incident Sweden
Not only of the Temelin nuclear power plant provides headlines. In Sweden, there is an increasing number of accidents and failures of nuclear power plants. Last week came in Forsmark nuclear power plant to a loss of Not stromgeneratoren. Then one of the reactors were shut down. On Wednesday evening, two more nuclear rectors for security reasons has been discontinued. This in Oskarshamn, because the safety of the plant no longer be guaranteed. The problem with the thing is that the cause of the disruption until now is not yet known. Cause of the situation was a short circuit in the network. Such incidents over the intermediate diesel generators supply of pumps and other nuclear power plants in operation. But these wanted from inexplicable reasons not continue. Experts refer to this incident as the most dangerous since Chernobyl.
Criticism from Greenpeace
Greenpeace criticized the trivialization of the incident in the Swedish For mark nuclear power station by Austrian and Finnish nuclear experts. “The repeatedly cited INES scale of the International Atomic Energy Agency IAEA says nothing about what would happen and how far Europe is facing a new Chernobyl Supergau away,” criticized Greenpeace nuclear expert Erwin Mayer. According INES scale was the incident with class 2 assessed. The incident is classified initially by the operator of the NPP, not by independent experts. Only then can the IAEA, whose aim is after all, nuclear energy worldwide to promote a reduction or - mostly - Hinaufstufung. “Only a few false steps can be an incident from the INES category 2 in the shortest possible time a Category 5, 6 or 7 - as in Chernobyl -. In the case of the Forsmark nuclear power station has even the Swedish supervisory authority SKI in its investigation report of a” extraordinary “incident spoken,” concludes Mayer of Greenpeace.
Our hero
Since the accident, the city For mark a new hero. Nicklas Sjulander acted quickly and decoupled the control to an external power supply. Already nearly 22 minutes after the first failure. This could prevent a meltdown. Had he acted in accordance with the rules, a response only after 30 minutes (!!?) order, the consequences would be incalculable.
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