LITHUANIA IGNALINA SAFETY ASSESSMENT SAYS ‘COULD DO BETTER’
July 1st, 2006
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has called for a series of reforms to nuclear radiation safety and environmental checks at and around Lithuania's Ignalina nuclear power plant.
The good news is that its radiation protection unit satisfied itself that "routine discharge of active process waters from Ignalina are physically impossible" and that airborne radiation sampling and monitoring "is satisfactory".
However, contrary to Lithuanian law, these air checks do not measure Tritium and C-14. Also, the inspectors noted dirt in bended ...
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