All French Nuclear Reactors Deemed Unsafe

hweimer writes "A new study by a French government agency, commissioned in the wake of the Fukushima disaster, found that all French nuclear power plants do not offer adequate safety when it comes to flooding, earthquakes, power outages, failure of the cooling systems and operational management of accidents. While there is no need for immediate shutdown, the agency presses for the problems to be fixed quickly. France gets about 80% of its power from nuclear energy and is a major exporter of nuclear technology."

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Re:Wait! I know this one

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The "If it's not nuclear, it's coal" fiends are below us now, ranting their "coal is evil" rants as if there were no other options. I'll call that a win.

Coal and nuclear are both proven bad. Why not look at something else?

Re:As the French would say...

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So many slashdot nuclear apologists in denial about the dangers of nuclear power that they marked your post interesting instead of informative.

This one is going to be interesting to watch, nuclear can't be dangerous, no-one could of predicted Fukushima. Chernobyl, one-mile island and Windscale were a one-off (count them, 1-2-3.... ONE) and will never happen again because the modern safety systems are too good.

Nuclear power stations never leak and it wouldn't matter anyway because radioactive waste is not really all that harmful.

Terrorists could never get hold of nuclear waste, gov'ts never support terrorists and gov'ts never fall. There is no such thing as corruption, and nothing ever gets lost.

It beggars belief the mindset you need to support nuclear, ignoring all of the above.

Wind-power, there are technologies to store energy with 90% efficiency. It doesn't create deadly waste that no-one knows what to do with. The price of the energy input is free and unchanging. IT'S CHEAPER THAN NUCLEAR.