Explosion at French nuclear plant of Marcoule

BFM TV - September 12, 2011
15:00 CET
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One person has been killed and four injured, one seriously, by an explosion at the southern French nuclear plant of Marcoule.

There were no radioactive leaks after the blast, caused by a fire near a furnace in a radioactive waste storage site, a French nuclear official said.

A security perimeter has been set up because of the risk of leakage.

The plant produces MOX fuel, which recycles plutonium from nuclear weapons, but does not include reactors.
It is a major site involved with the decommissioning of nuclear facilities.

The Centraco treatment centre belongs to a subsidiary of national electricity provider EDF.

The explosion hit the plant at 1145 local time (0945 GMT).

"For the time being nothing has made it outside," said a spokesman for France's Atomic Energy Commission (CEA).

Marcoule, one of France's oldest nuclear plants, is located in the Gard department in Languedoc-Roussillon region, near France's Mediterranean coast.

Nuclear energy provides more than 70% of France's energy needs.

All the country's 58 nuclear reactors have been put through stress tests in recent months, following the disaster at Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant which was hit by an earthquake and tsunami.

EDF's share prices fell by more than 6% as news of the blast emerged.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-14883521

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[SuperBunkerbuster]

@manwhatupduck "La fête est finie" ?

I am sorry dude but I do not want to give up with the nuclear energy, it keeps my air clean and my electricity bill low compared with other UE coutries.

[yahokobbenyah]

I have one acronym for you: HAARP

[manwhatupduck]

The use of nuclear energy anywhere in our world is a fool's game. Please someone in France post my thought for me as goes: the game is up! I am sorry I cannot remember how to say it but it is a wise and good French saying! Peace Out. MWUD??????????????????????????­?????

[N3anderthaler]

Have a look what the skies above our nuclear waste storage look like:

"HUGE storms over Europe 28 June 2011 update"

There is something seriously wrong! I live 5 miles from the Areva facility in Petten.

and have been noticing and recording the effects for months now.

After seeing that video you'll realise what they are doing.

If you have simular experiences near reactors or nuclear waste storages -you know what I mean if you do- I would like to hear about that.

[MouvemntSclstAltrntf]

Cet incident est bien la preuve que nos centrales nucléaires ne sont pas sans danger et que pour ne pas subir un Fukushima ou un Tchernobyl il est dans l'intérêt général de passer aux énergies vertes, qui plus est, en l'absence de combustibles nous serions moins dépendant des autres pays ce qui n'est pas rien en plein plan de rigueur

[megaterra69]

I'm sorry friend, but I'm pretty fucking if thousands of soldiers come back with legit stories and video of mass graves, prison camps and bulldozers pushing bodies around like fucking sand then that's all the proof I need. Your a fucking moron spreading that "genocide never happened" bullshit. I hope you spit that shit off in front of somebody who was actually there so they can beat the living piss out of you. Seriously, people like you fucking suck ass. Fuck tard.

[34sunbunpart2]

@zelinskyteki whens your new BS history book coming out..I bet no one died in the WW's and it was made in hollywood. you love Stalin.

[USkillcam]

la pue de bek

[USkillcam]

da mei la pue like caca

[angelialvares]

Translated as" this is not just an event (incident) but considered as an accident which is more serious as there was an explosion. Irradiated material (even clothes of workers) and all metal around nuclear reactors (not in use) is brought here and the radio-activity is then concentrated into glass so that it can be eventually stored underground. The final products are therefore very highly radio-active and these are in tonnes!