Report Says EU Nuclear Plants Need Better Safety

By RAF CASERT | October 8, 2012

EU Energy Commissioner Guenther Oettinger said Thursday the cost of necessary improvements at the 145 nuclear reactors in the European Union could be as high as (euro) 25 billion ($32 billion) over the coming years.

A European Union report released Thursday says stress tests carried out in the wake of the March 2011 Fukushima accident in Japan show that almost all the plants need safety improvements. Officials said earlier that the tests did not reveal the need to close any plants immediately.