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‘Reactors very different’

Parliamentary reporter Official reaction to suggestions that the Pennsylvania nuclear-reactor incident should cause a rethink of New Zealand’s attitude towards visiting nuclear ships, is that the two types of reactor are so different that present policy remains unaffected. The Friends of the Earth environmental organisation has asked the Prime Minister (Mr Muldoon) whether the Harrisburg plant incident affected his attitude towards the risk entailed in letting nuclear ships visit New Zealand. An official view is that the reactor that powers a nuclear ship is about 100 times less powerful than that in a power plant, and that a ship in which a reactor fault has developed can be moved quickly away from a populated area. Because of this, little danger would result from a faulty ship’s reactor, and this is why nuclear ships are allowed into so many ports all over the world.

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Press, 12 April 1979, Page 21

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‘Reactors very different’ Press, 12 April 1979, Page 21

‘Reactors very different’ Press, 12 April 1979, Page 21

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