LONDON – Nuclear reactors older than 40 years may need to shut down following Europe-wide stress tests as additional safety costs will make them too expensive to run, the head of the OECD’s Nuclear Energy Agency told Reuters on Wednesday.
“I think there will be a few reactors where decisions are really challenged. In the end it will be a strictly economic decision,” said Ron Cameron in an interview.
Europe’s regulators ordered region-wide stress tests on nuclear plants following Japan’s Fukishima crisis, which include testing the impact of an airline crash, an element that was left out in tests carried out in the U.S.
“It is the addition of the aircraft factor that has made the tests much more challenging.”
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