Weekly Report - 23 August 2012 (WR-12-33)

In June this year, the Belgian Doel-3 nuclear reactor had to be shut down after it was detected, during a regular inspection of the facilities, that there were thousands of fissures in a reactor vessel built by the (now defunct) Dutch company Rotterdamche Droogdok Maatschappij (RDM). As a result, environmental campaign groups in Argentine filed formal requests before the Argentine regulatory nuclear authority (ARN), calling for the government agency to clarify whether RDM had provided any parts for either Atucha I, which has been in operation since 1974, or Atucha II, currently in its last phase of construction. The ARN has yet to reply.

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