The Swiss government has suspended plans to replace and build new nuclear plants pending a review of two hydrogen explosions at Japanese plants.
The head of the Swiss federal energy department, Doris Leuthard, said today’s suspension affects three requests for “blanket authorization for nuclear replacement until safety standards have been carefully reviewed and if necessary adapted.”
The government is considering 2008 applications for a new plant in the canton (state) of Solothurn and replacement plants in the cantons of Aargau and Bern.
Leuthard says she decided to suspend the plans because “safety has absolute priority.”
She says she has instructed the government to study what caused the Japanese explosions in the wake of Friday’s massive earthquake and tsunami.
– from timesdispatch.com
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has announced that the country’s seven nuclear reactors built before 1980 will be shut down for a three-month review of German plant safety. On Monday, Merkel suspended plans to extend the life of Germany’s 17 nuclear reactors.
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