Radiation leak risk after deadly French nuclear plant blast
There is a risk of a radioactive leak after an explosion killed at least one person and injured four others at the Marcoule nuclear site in the south of France, the state regulator said.
National electricity provider EDF confirmed the initial death toll following the explosion in an oven at the site in the Rhone Valley near the southern city of Nimes.
One of the injured is in a serious condition, France’s Nuclear Safety Authority (ASN) said.
The blast hit the Centraco nuclear waste treatment centre belonging to EDF subsidiary Socodei, said a spokesman for the Atomic Energy Commissariat (CEA).
The site is around 20 kilometres (12 miles) north of the historic city of Avignon which is thronged with tourists at this time of the year.
“For the time being nothing has made it outside,” a CEA spokesman said, asking not to be named.
A security perimeter has been set up around the installation, firefighters said, without being able to provide further details. Expatica.com
Media speculations
The media is speculating if there is any truth in claims of radiation leakage risk but like we learned from Fukushima disaster we might never know what actually happened and what is the actual risk.
France is, I think, the most nuclearized state in the world. The French State has staked it’s industrial future on the lie that ‘Fukushima couldn’t happen here’.. Therefore it will do everything possible to cover up any health consequences. Therefore we should not believe any official explanations.
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