Security problems in Soviet unity

1992/06/01 Elhuyar Zientzia Iturria: Elhuyar aldizkaria

• Energia

Sosmovy Bo nuclear power plant near St. Petersburg suffered a breakdown in mid-March.

This nuclear power plant is the same as the Chernobyl explosion and has emitted a class 2 radiation, that is, soft.

This fact is only a small part of a serious problem existing in the Eastern States. The general problem is: "the material of nuclear power plants has no reliability, neither in properties, nor in construction structures, and is also aging."

According to the international agency for atomic energy, 10 nuclear reactors type VVER-4401220 created by the Soviets are dangerous.

These reactors are installed in Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria and Russia and numerous errors have been detected. Among them, the absence of concrete protections in case of radioactivity leakage, the risk of cracks in the heart of the reactor, unnecessary protection in case of fire and the existence of failures in the control system.

Due to the energy situation these reactors should work until 1995, but for this it is necessary to improve security measures, being indispensable the help of the Westerners.

Last year the Sosmovy Bore nuclear power plant suffered two emergency cuts and 156 unscheduled interruptions by the Russian nuclear park in the same period.

Given this data, what happened in Chernobyl can be repeated and the problem will not be only for the Russians, of course.