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  Vattenfall to appoint chief nuclear officer to improve safety at plants - International Herald Tribune 

  http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/11/12/business/EU-FIN-Sweden-Vattenfall.php

  STOCKHOLM, Sweden : Swedish utility Vattenfall AB on Monday said it has started recruitment for a new position of chief nuclear officer as a means toward improving the safety of its nuclear plants. The ... initiative was based on the analysis of events at the Forsmark nuclear power plant in Sweden last year, which revealed shortcomings in Vattenfall's safety work and safety culture. "As a consequence of what happened at Forsmark last year, Vattenfall's Board of Directors has made nuclear safety issues its top priority in 2007. Safe operations, whether in our nuclear business or elsewhere, is at the top of my mind," said the chairman of the board, Dag Klackenberg. The nuclear officer will be the group's most senior controller in nuclear safety issues and the new nuclear expert of the executive group management. He will report directly to Vattenfall's President and Chief Executive Lars Josefsson. The two reactors at Forsmark have been plagued with problems, including a shutdown in July after   [More...] [Less...]

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  Tags:  nuclear power, nuclear safety, vattenfall ab