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  euronews | Uranium leak leads to French nuclear plant closure 

  http://www.euronews.net/en/article/11/07/2008/uranium-leak-leads-to-french-nuclear-plant-closure/

  A company responsible for a toxic leak in southwest France on Monday has been told to close part of its nuclear site after inspectors criticised a series of errors. Seventy five kilos of unenriched uranium ... seeped into the local water supply at the Tricastin plant run by Socatri, a subsidiary of French energy company Areva. After today’s inspection, France’s nuclear safety watchdog has ordered its temporary closure. Philippe Ledenvic of the nuclear safety authority said: “The procedural failings that we’ve recorded are not acceptable for a company of this type. It was a series of oversights and human errors that together led to this accidental spillage.” Authorites say the leak poses only a low safety risk- level one on a scale from zero to seven – but anti-nuclear groups claim the accident is part of a wider problem. Stéphane Lhomme of the “Sortir du nucléaire” collective said: “Socatri has illustrated the very seriously degraded state of all of France’s nuclear facilities, whether the   [More...] [Less...]

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  Tags:  france, nuclear safety, tricastin power plant, uranium, water supply