Focus on safety at Brazil nuclear plant after Japan FEATURE 04/29/2011

Focus on safety at Brazil nuclear plant after Japan

FEATURE

04/29/2011
ANGRA DOS REIS — Brazil’s Angra dos Reis bay is a tropical paradise that attracts droves of tourists each year. But it is also sharply in focus as the home of the nation’s only nuclear power plant.

Brazilian officials insist things are safe at the two pressurized water reactors, Angra I and Angra II, which face the sea some 150 kilometers (90 miles) west of Rio de Janeiro.

But security improvements have been stepped up in the wake of the devastating disaster at Japan’s Fukushima nuclear power plant, crippled by a March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

“We were taking measures (to improve security), but Fukushima accelerated them,” Jose Manuel Diaz Francisco, in charge of security at Electronuclear, the public company in charge of the plants, told AFP..... MORE

Source:  The Daily Tribune

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