Medvedev seeks nuclear safety
Russian head calls for new world rules to be drawn up on safety at nuclear plants
Russian head calls for new world rules to be drawn up on safety at nuclear plants
Medvedev, standing alongside Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich at a ceremony marking the 25th anniversary of the world’s worst nuclear accident, said the disaster had taught states that they must tell the whole truth to their people.
The world community pledged ¤550m to help build a new containment shell over the stricken reactor at the Chernobyl site to replace a makeshift one that has begun to leak radiation.
About 120,000 people took part in anti-nuclear rallies across Germany in April. There were 80 rallies across Germany, the largest outside the Grohnde nuclear reactor, one of 17 plants in Germany, where 20,000 took part. About 15,000 also took part in rallies outside the reactors at Biblis and Grafenrheinfeld in the south of the country.
In Romania, scores of protesters gathered near government headquarters in Bucharest. Protesters, some wearing green vests, protective chemical suits and gas masks, want authorities to cancel plans to build new nuclear reactors in the European Union state on the river Danube banks, in Cernavoda.
