Blast at French nuclear plant

[fidget]

Wonder why the plant is pixellated on Google maps but not on Bing maps...

 

[Strife212]

Nothing to worry about.

 

[Niju Rosu]

I can imagine the 'green' folks will have a field day with this.

 

[Kenai]

Excellent, a load more uninformed scaremongering for the media to indulge in regardless of how bad the actual incident may turn out to be.

 

[Gilly]

Wonder if it indeed was the same plant that exploded in July, and whether details of the explosion will be released this time.

 

[Freefaller]

I can imagine the 'green' folks will have a field day with this.

Indeed :/

Excellent, a load more uninformed scaremongering for the media to indulge in regardless of how bad the actual incident may turn out to be.

And more perpetuated nonsense about nuclear power too...

 

[Danthus]

There are no nuclear reactors at this plant though are there? It is a reprocessing centre and handles weapons grade material.

 

[LeJosh]

No knee jerks from myself!

Let's just wait to see the scale of the damage.

Edit - The place recycles plutonium oldcoals. No reactors, no.

 

[Cosimo]

One dead and one gravely injured:

http://www.midilibre.fr/2011/09/12/...-de-marcoule-1-mort-1-blesse-grave,386389.php

 

[squerble]

No knee jerks from myself!

Let's just wait to see the scale of the damage.

Edit - The place recycles plutonium oldcoals. No reactors, no.

Indeed, I just wanted to get the topic going. Media are going to have a field day with this. Apparently the plant produces tritium; I was looking at buying one of those watches that uses Tritium to power it's illumination

 

[Danthus]

No knee jerks from myself!

Let's just wait to see the scale of the damage.

Edit - The place recycles plutonium oldcoals. No reactors, no.

Weapons grade Plutonium and it previously produced Tritium, used in Nuclear weapons.

 

[ubersonic]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-14883521

Vary scarce details cropping up over the web atm. Not another one

Its not a power station its a storage/recycling facility. The is no radiation danger and the security perimeter is just a precaution in line with guidelines.

Yikes!

Wonder if it's anything to do with this:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jul/04/french-nuclear-power-plant-explosion-safety-fears

That was an explosion/fire of an electrical transformer in a non nuclear part of the site, it could happen at any power station including gas/solar/hydro/win/etc. Again no radiation danger whatsoever.


The media are doing an incredible job of blowing all this out of proportion...

Weapons grade Plutonium and it previously produced Tritium, used in Nuclear weapons.

If you wan't Tritium there's a load of it sealed inside Sellafield...

 

[Killerkebab]

French Green Party are going to have a field day over this, especially in an election year where the Socialists will probably (read: certainly) need their help to win the election.

Probably going to try to argue that France should give up on nuclear power, despite the fact that for a country like France, this is going to be more or less impossible in the short term...

 

[Neil79]

Nothing to worry about.

 

[Edrof]

The media are doing an incredible job of blowing all this out of proportion...

That's what they do best.

 

[MBennett]

In this country we should be concern over things like this and France's appetite for nuclear energy. France exports so much energy to us that if they had to cut back we would be looking at rolling black outs etc.

 

[Vonhelmet]

One dead and one gravely injured:

http://www.midilibre.fr/2011/09/12/...-de-marcoule-1-mort-1-blesse-grave,386389.php

WARNING! THE ABOVE ARTICLE IS IN FRENCH!

 

[TwsT]

Do French Neutrons only work half a day?

hahahaha

 

[Vonhelmet]

I want to know what actually exploded and why.

 

[DBT85]

I wish the media would report on all the deaths and accidents that other power sources caused

Nuclear is like the ginger kid at school. Pick on it because its popular.