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Nuclear Reaction - a Greenpeace blog: Public consultations and public confidence

Posted on October 02, 2008

Nuclear energy is truly a globalised industry. Countries and companies across the world share reactor designs, components, and construction techniques. Hand in hand with that, those countries also share design faults, component failures, and construction shortcomings. Witness, for instance, how the EPR reactors currently being built in France and Finland share many of the same fundamental problems in their construction poor safety standards, cost overruns and missed deadlines.Add to these lists the way investigations, studies and public consultations are conducted when governments decide to...

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