BUCHAREST, Oct 25 (Reuters) - Environment group Greenpeace urged Romanian
authorities on Wednesday not to build two new nuclear reactors for the Cernavoda
plant because of greater risks in case of a terror attack.
Bucking a
trend in Europe, Romania plans to inaugurate its second reactor early in 2007
and has set a deadline for binding bids to build and operate a third and a
fourth reactor for end-2006. "A major nuclear accident due to technical causes
or following a terror attack will be devastating ... such as an accident at the
Belene and Kozloduy plants in Bulgaria," Anamaria Bogdan, a spokeswsoman for
Greenpeace in Romania, said in a statement.
"Nuclear energy is one of the
worst options to solve Romania's energy (needs)," Jan Haverkamp, an expert with
Greenpeace was also quoted as saying.
Works at Cernavoda plant, designed
to have five reactors, began 30 years ago under the former communist regime.
Construction stopped in 1990 when a survey revealed some of the equipment was in
poor condition and the welding was faulty.
The plant's first reactor went
on stream in 1996 and accounts for more than 10 percent of the country's power
generation.
© Reuters 2006.
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