Blast at French nuclear plant

MBennett said:
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.
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Agreed. France's appetite for nuclear energy is the whole reason they have enough left over to sell to their neighbours :)
 
Gilly said:
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I don't think that equates...
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How? more people die as a result of other existing energy sources every year than do in Nuclear power production. The media continue to paint Nuclear in a negative light because it gets them viewers, readers and hits. People care a lot less for 300 guys trapped in a coal mine than they do for a rat sneezing in a Nuclear power plant because "OMGZ WE ALL GOWNA DIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE. TEH RADIATION TEHRADIATOIN, I CAN FEEL IT ON MA FAYCE!!!"
 
I'm on the south coast and I think i'm starting to feel some radiation sickness.





It's that or the curry last night isn't agreeing with me.
 
An oven exploded? What kind of oven?

It sounds like this has nothing to do with any inherent risks of nuclear crap, and probably just means the PAT tester was on strike that day or something.
 
Todge said:
How? more people die as a result of other existing energy sources every year than do in Nuclear power production. The media continue to paint Nuclear in a negative light because it gets them viewers, readers and hits. People care a lot less for 300 guys trapped in a coal mine than they do for a rat sneezing in a Nuclear power plant because "OMGZ WE ALL GOWNA DIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE. TEH RADIATION TEHRADIATOIN, I CAN FEEL IT ON MA FAYCE!!!"
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Um. Because you called a ginger kid popular.
 
Vonhelmet said:
An oven exploded? What kind of oven?

It sounds like this has nothing to do with any inherent risks of nuclear crap, and probably just means the PAT tester was on strike that day or something.
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You're perfectly safe:

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
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Holy ****!! :eek: How long until the radiation reaches here?!?!! Going to get to the shops to get supplies now!!
 
grr, I hate these posts, theres no risk of radiation as theres no reactors, what, its a nuclear waste recycling facility, nuclear waste is HIGHLY radioactive.

Theres still little chance of serious radiation leakage, but we saw from Japan, waste storage ones one of the primary problems at the plants in terms of radiation leaking out, though keeping the reactors cooled to prevent another massive source of leakage was the main goal of the whole operation.

A fire contained thats eventually put out without the storage facility being comprimised in any way, little chance of any significant radiation leakage, but I fail to instantly dismiss any chance of it because "theres no reactors there", as thats beyond retarded. Also a fire in a bog standard house, pretty easy to contain and make safe, a fire inside a facility that contains nuclear waste simply becomes potentially much much harder to fight because of the inability to get at the fire and a fire inside a storage facility I also fail to see as an insignificant risk, till its out.

Why does it always have to be "omg the radiation" or "theres no risk because of some random things I discounted". Can't people be rational and say, theres radioactive materials, a fire inside a storage facility isn't good, but that doesn't automatically mean things will get out of control or even remotely serious.
 
Is it bad that I associate the severity of the incident with the number of posts in an OcUK thread?

I wanted to check back up on this and saw it was only two pages and thought "Meh, obviously not serious then" before I even read the posts :o
 
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