French nuclear leak prompts urgent security review

[jpak]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/2454654/French-nuclear-leak-prompts-urgent-security-review.html

The country's independent radiation watchdog sounded the alarm today after the incident – the fourth such scare in a fortnight.

Electricité de France workers were exposed to radioactive particles on Wednesday that escaped from a pipe at a nuclear reactor at the Tricastin complex.

Experts said that the latest incident involved the highest number of workers to be collectively contaminated in French nuclear history.

Tricastin, which houses four reactors, suffered another leak earlier this month at a separate treatment facility when 74kg of liquid containing unenriched uranium was spilled.

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[hogwyld]

1. BBBBBUUUUTTTT according to

NNad*** nukular power is so safe, you can bath in it... Oh yeah, :sarcasm:

[Hydra]

5. Yeah, and we've eliminated human error, too!

:puke:

Anyone else here get to read about the plutonium that got washed down the sink by a lab worker?

[tinrobot]

2. In other news...

Some people washing off solar panels in Spain spilled some Windex.

The surrounding area was not evacuated.

[madokie]

3. The nerve of them

do they not care :-)

[DCKit]

4. Solar: Terra! Terra! Terra-joules!

Nnewcuelur: Sunshine, puppy dogs, unicorns and giant, mutated boobies.