IAEA ‘concerned’ about world’s ageing nuclear plants

Eighty percent of the world's nuclear power plants are more than 20 years old, raising safety concerns, a draft UN report says a year after Japan’s Fukushima disaster.Many operators have begun programs, or expressed an intention, to run reactors beyond their planned design lifetimes, said the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) document which has not yet been made public.“There are growing expectations that older nuclear reactors should meet enhanced safety objectives, closer to ...

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