Nuclear agency OKs stress tests on 2 Fukui reactors

I guess they couldn't find any older reactor that was located on some more hazardous fault line to OK?

I can accept that Japan will need a few reactors running and/or as power reserve for the near future. But they don't need to restart them all, and these certainly seem like a bad choice to keep. Perhaps they were the town in the most dire need of some nuclear money, I don't know.

And yet they don't tell anyone what the stress tests consist of.

I would like to see the tests.

@smithinjapan

And yet they don't tell anyone what the stress tests consist of.

Simple, if some member of the nuclear establishment feels stressed out by the mentioning of shutting down a certain plant, then the plant passes the test?

It sounds responsible. More carefull measures will save lives

The WENRA website (Western European Nuclear Regulators Association) published in RHWG Safety Reference Levels (January 2008), for existing and for new nuclear power plants (Nov 2010), which are serving as the basis for the stress tests. They are freely downloadable.

No doubt the actual stress tests will not be published openly, for fear of NPP operators fooling them and the usual security/ terrorism threats.