Russia Beefs Up Extreme Impact Defense Measures at Nuclear Plants

JOHANNESBURG--July 17, 2012-- Written by Richard Finlayson, Senior International Editor for Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)-- In the first half of 2011, Russia's state-owned Energoatom Concern OJSC (Moscow), formerly known as Rosenergoatom, set up a task forces to analyze and prepare lists of possible accident development scenarios at nuclear power plants in Russia, along with response measures that would mitigate the impact beyond design basis accidents on the population and the environment.