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'Leak risk after explosion at French nuclear plant'
There is a risk of a radioactive leak after a blast at the southern French nuclear plant of Marcoule, media reports say.
One person was killed and three were injured in the explosion, following a fire in a storage site for radioactive waste, Le Figaro newspaper said.
The plant is in the Gard region.
It is a major site involved with the decommissioning of nuclear facilities, and operates a pressurised water reactor used to produce tritium.
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Explosion at nuclear site in southern France kills 1
General view of Marcoule nuclear complex.
CTVNews.ca Staff
Date: Monday Sep. 12, 2011 9:11 AM ET
An explosion has rocked a facility in southern France that treats nuclear waste, but officials say there has been no leak of radiation.
One person was killed in the blast. Four other people were injured, one seriously.
L'Autorite de Surete Nucleaire, France's nuclear safety agency, says a furnace exploded at the Centraco nuclear waste treatment site. The blast was completely contained within the furnace, which is used to melt waste. It's still not known what caused the explosion.
ASN said there was no leak of radioactive material outside the furnace.
"According to initial information, the explosion happened in an oven used to melt radioactive metallic waste of little and very little radioactivity," the agency said in a statement.
The Centraco site us located next to the Marcoule nuclear plant, in Languedoc-Roussillon, near the Mediterranean Sea.
Officials from France's EDF power company, whose subsidiary operates Centraco, stressed there was no nuclear reactor on the site. It also noted that no waste treated at the site came from a nuclear reactor.
With 58 nuclear reactors serving a population of 65 million, France is the world's most nuclear-reliant country. The country has been carrying out stress tests on its reactors, in the aftermath of the Fukushima disaster in Japan.
With reports from The Associated Press
Source: http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/TopStoriesV2/20110912/french-nuclear-plant-blast-110912/
There is a risk of a radioactive leak after a blast at the southern French nuclear plant of Marcoule, media reports say.
One person was killed and three were injured in the explosion, following a fire in a storage site for radioactive waste, Le Figaro newspaper said.
The plant is in the Gard region.
It is a major site involved with the decommissioning of nuclear facilities, and operates a pressurised water reactor used to produce tritium.
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MORE:
Explosion at nuclear site in southern France kills 1
General view of Marcoule nuclear complex.
CTVNews.ca Staff
Date: Monday Sep. 12, 2011 9:11 AM ET
An explosion has rocked a facility in southern France that treats nuclear waste, but officials say there has been no leak of radiation.
One person was killed in the blast. Four other people were injured, one seriously.
L'Autorite de Surete Nucleaire, France's nuclear safety agency, says a furnace exploded at the Centraco nuclear waste treatment site. The blast was completely contained within the furnace, which is used to melt waste. It's still not known what caused the explosion.
ASN said there was no leak of radioactive material outside the furnace.
"According to initial information, the explosion happened in an oven used to melt radioactive metallic waste of little and very little radioactivity," the agency said in a statement.
The Centraco site us located next to the Marcoule nuclear plant, in Languedoc-Roussillon, near the Mediterranean Sea.
Officials from France's EDF power company, whose subsidiary operates Centraco, stressed there was no nuclear reactor on the site. It also noted that no waste treated at the site came from a nuclear reactor.
With 58 nuclear reactors serving a population of 65 million, France is the world's most nuclear-reliant country. The country has been carrying out stress tests on its reactors, in the aftermath of the Fukushima disaster in Japan.
With reports from The Associated Press
Source: http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/TopStoriesV2/20110912/french-nuclear-plant-blast-110912/