Obvious concern
The associated risks with the planed floating NPPs are a matter of obvious concern, writes the Norwegian Radiation Protection Authorities in a recent published report.
Yesterday BarentsObserver reported that Rosatom State Nuclear Energy Corporation and the Siberian Republic of Yakutia signed an agreement for implementing investments to build four floating nuclear power plants.
The report from the Norwegian Radiation Protection Authorities (NRPA), named Floating Nuclear Power Plants and Associated Technologies in the Northern Areas, is a comprehensive background analysis of the available knowhow related to the floating NPPs and radiation risks involved.
In the summary of the report, the authors write about numerous concerns regarding the development, use and export of floating NPP technologies as well as the advent of a nuclear industry based upon them.
The northern regions will affect the risk of accidents and incidents that may impact upon human health, environmental quality and the socio-economic aspects of the region that have proved and continue to be vulnerable to actual and potential radioactive contamination, the report says.
A pdf-version of the report is available at the NRPA.
