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The 2013 European Floods submerged many riverine regions in southern and eastern Germany, Poland, and the Czech Republic. The Fischerdorf and Natternberg neighborhoods of the Bavarian city of Deggendorf along the Danube river were flooded after two levees within the region breached. These communities faced an additional danger in t…
Selon l'Institut de Radio Protection et de Sûreté Nucleaire (IRSN), en vue de renforcer la sûreté des différentes installations nucléaires françaises en cas de situations extrêmes (séisme, inondation, perte de sources électriques, perte de sources froides), l’Autorité de sûreté nucléaire (ASN) a demandé aux Groupes Permanents pour les réacteurs (GPR) et…
This issue focuses on urban resilience and looks at recent occurrences of weather-related events causing widespread devastation and misery, including floods, typhoons and wildfires in Australia, severe winter weather in Colombia, snowstorms in Estonia and Scotland, hundreds of people and thousands of buildings lost to flash floods and mudslides in Brazi…
A sequence of devastating earthquakes and a large number of weather-related catastrophes made 2011 the costliest year ever in terms of natural catastrophe losses. At about US$ 380bn, global economic losses were nearly two-thirds higher than in 2005, the previous record year with losses of US$ 220bn. The earthquakes in Japan in March and New Zealand in F…
Officials in the USA are working on plans to ensure that flood, earthquake or other disaster situations would not cause nuclear meltdowns such as that of the Fukushima Daiichi plant in Japan. According to the New York Times, a high-level safety analyst the Nuclear Regulatory Commission of Japan had warned about the possibility of a catastrophic situatio…
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Ce rapport traite des évaluations complémentaires de sûreté, huit mois après la catastrophe de Fukushima. Bien que menées dans des délais extrêmement contraints, ces évaluations ont permis: (i) d’évaluer la conformité des installations aux exigences qui leur sont applicables au regard des agressions externes de type séisme et inondation ains…
This report analyses past technological incidents with hazardous materials releases and damage to industrial facilities caused by the impact of storms. It discusses the vulnerability of industrial sites including that of the main equipment types present at the facility and analyses how they are damaged. The first part of the report describes the storm h…
According to BBC, the Nuclear Safety Authority (ASN) has called on France's 58 power plants to make safety improvements quickly, but it says none of the reactors needs to be shut down, following stress tests carried out in the wake of the Japanese earthquake and tsunami. ASN says industry operators must come forward by 30 June with measures they would t…
In French:
Ce document est un rapport sur les évaluations complémentaires de sûreté (ECS) menées en France à la suite de l’accident de Fukushima. Des inspections, menées sur l’ensemble des installations nucléaires jugées prioritaires, ont visé à contrôler sur le terrain la conformité des matériels et de l’organisation de l’exploitant au regard du réfé…