Global Jihad: temi, piste di diffusione e il fenomeno del reducismo ...
Global Jihad: temi, piste di diffusione e il fenomeno del reducismo ...
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(DEFRA) - was undertaken “to assist in the definition of potential threats from<br />
overseas nuclear reactor accidents”. 145 The study examined a large number of<br />
reactors and data for NPPs in Western Europe, Russia, the seven Central and Eastern<br />
European Countries (CEECs) seeking membership of the European Union, and the<br />
Newly Independent States (NIS) with operable NPPs. 146 It demonstrates that<br />
incidents in one country can affect its neighbours and, indeed, perhaps a whole<br />
region, depen<strong>di</strong>ng upon environmental con<strong>di</strong>tions.<br />
In ad<strong>di</strong>tion to nuclear power plants of the type <strong>di</strong>scussed above, a further two related<br />
plant types warrant mention: commercial research reactors and nuclear fuel<br />
reprocessing plants (which produces and stores nuclear spent fuel), in ad<strong>di</strong>tion to the<br />
threat of attacks on ra<strong>di</strong>oactive waste products.<br />
Research reactors<br />
The IAEA maintains a list of past, present and future research<br />
reactors, which it<br />
makes ava<strong>il</strong>able on its website. 147 When queried as to those fac<strong>il</strong>ities in or around the<br />
European<br />
Union, the IAEA database identified 183 operational research reactors, 189<br />
shut down reactors, 154 decommissioned reactors, as well as two ad<strong>di</strong>tional fac<strong>il</strong>ities<br />
under construction with an ad<strong>di</strong>tional two planned. Commercial research reactors<br />
are neither as well guarded and secured, nor as structurally able to withstand a<br />
powerful attack. With the large number of targets ava<strong>il</strong>able worldwide, this is a<br />
significant cause for concern.<br />
145 Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, ‘Estimates of Probab<strong>il</strong>ity of Severe Accidents at<br />
European Reactors Potentially Lea<strong>di</strong>ng to Fallout in the UK’, DEFRA Report No: DEFRA/RAS/01.001, August 2001<br />
146 The countries assessed were Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Holland, Italy, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland,<br />
Russia, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Lithuania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Romania, Ukraine, Kazakhstan and<br />
Armenia.<br />
147 see the IAEA website for these deta<strong>il</strong>s worldwide: http://www.iaea.org/worldatom/rrdb/<br />
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