Apparently, the site is not a nuclear plant. But they do manipulate nuclear matter.
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.