Guenther Oettinger: EU nuclear power plant tests have the potential for clear objective standards

Guenther Oettinger: EU nuclear power plant tests have the potential for clear objective standards

Energy Commissioner Guenther Oettinger has claimed that nuclear tests are safe enough to ensure the safety standards of the working plants.

Green groups and European politicians have strongly condemned the failure of Japanese Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

They have also criticised reaction of EU on the disastrous event. Green groups say that EU did not ensured the safety on multiple reactor failure and crashing of a large aircraft.

Oettinger confirmed that the tests were taken on the measures to ensure damage safety after floods, earthquake, human or technical error, loss of power and plane crashes.

He said, "I can answer to the Greens, be relaxed, wait and see, wait for Christmas and have a happy new year.”

The commissioner accepted the fact that the tests are yet at its initial stages but they have the potential to ensure objective standards.

"The first success maybe is all 14 member states who have operating plants are taking part. Some neighbouring states are taking part,” Oettinger added, "At the moment, my ambition is to have the first objective and successful stress test. If we come to clear
conclusions, then maybe this stress test is enough for the next 5-to-10 years.”

A progress report to be delivered on Thursday will be tentative, with final contributions from member states expected by the end of the year under a first voluntary reporting phase.

After that, the EU will begin work on a peer review, drawing together all the findings.

The achievement so far, Oettinger said, was that all EU nations with operating nuclear plants were involved.

The environmental groups say that the EU tests are not up to the mark for testing stress levels. Any of the nuclear power plant can pass those safety tests.

"The EU stress tests will completely fail to assess risks in core areas that would be essential in terms of preventing nuclear accidents," Green Group EU lawmaker Rebecca Harms said in a statement.

Some of the officials from commission including others have declared that the test has exposed issue within itself.

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