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Explosion At French Nuclear Site Kills One
syngularyx writes "An explosion took place in an oven Monday at the Marcoule nuclear site near the city of Nimes in the south of France. From the article: 'One person was killed and three were injured in the explosion, following a fire in a storage site for radioactive waste, Le Figaro newspaper said. It is a major site involved with the decommissioning of nuclear facilities. emergency services said.'"
Update: 09/12 16:20 GMT by S : Changed headline and summary to reflect that there seems to be no risk of a leak.
Hi there,
I am french, and i can tell you all : there are no problem in nuclear here. Never. Go back to sleep. Thanks for your attention.
In fact, here in France, it is almost illegal to put "problem" and "nuclear" in the same sentence without any negation...
What does it mean, "appended to the end of comments you post"
We must immediately halt all nuclear decommissioning due to the obvious recklessness it poses! Isn't it obvious from this incident that all nuclear decommissioning activities pose an immediate, inherent, and almost guaranteed risk of catastrophe??!?!
In France, radioactive clouds stop at the country borders. And even if they were to somehow fly over the country, it wouldn't be the cause of an increase of thyroid cancers. Nuclear energy is pretty safe in France.
It's when you drink too much Brawndo.
Perhaps they wanted you to see the headline in the sidebar about an oil pipeline fire in Kenya that killed at least 100 people. You know, so that you'll be convinced that nuclear power is far more dangerous than any other form of energy.
Palm trees and 8
That's racist, sir. Racist. France employs a lot of North African immigrants to do dirty, dangerous work, it's far too early to jump to conclusions about whether we should care about the corpse.
If you were blocking sigs, you wouldn't have to read this.