Leak risk after explosion at French nuclear plant
bbc.co.uk
bbc.co.uk
The linked article says little and just quotes other media reports. If you follow through (and speak French), the report in Le Figaro says "For now, there is no release outside the plant" (http://www.lefigaro.fr/actualite-france/2011/09/12/01016-201...)
There are many problems at nuclear sites around the world, not sure HN needs to take a 'BREAKING NEWS' approach to them.
(Of course, maybe I'm just bitter that my post about teaching children to code didn't get upvoted while this stuff did: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2986791)
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But the anti-nuclear groups aren't going to make that distinction. Which to me is like saying, we shouldn't use solar because someone used a laser pointer against helicopters.
Oh, and by the way they had a problem with this facility in march also. A level 2 (of 7) accident.
But BBC is wrong. Marcoule recycle Plutonium comming from COGEMA La Hague nuclear fuel reprocessing plant. And this plant has half the reprocessing capacity... in the World. They reprocess nuclear waste from a lot of countries... including Switzerland or Germany and others which do not have nuclear weapons.
And then all that Nuclear Waste is sent to Marcoule to be recycled.
They ALSO recyle some nuclear weapons. But most nuclear weapons recycling is done in Russia and US. Not in France.
No. It's French government. Hide First. Think After.
(In 1987 they said that the Nuclear Cloud coming from Tchernobyl had stoped at the frontier with Germany... so that the State had not to pay for medical treatment of Cancer to public servants).
Pierre Pellerin ( http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Pellerin ) won a trial against media that were saying this children story about him saying a Nuclear cloud stopped at the frontier.