IAEA TSUNAMI
August 1st, 2005
BY KEITH NUTHALLSCIENTISTS worldwide are re-assessing risks posed worldwide to nuclear power reactors by flooding from tsunamis, after last December's giant waves shut down a plant in India. Delegates to an International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) conference staged at this Kalpakkam power station heard how it withstood the disaster. Home to India's centre for atomic research, Kalpakkam automatically shut down after detectors sensed rising water levels, but was back online within six days, with no release of radioactivity. Other plants might not have been so ...
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