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French town in nuclear emergency
Barbados News.Net
Wednesday 9th July, 2008
The town of Avignon in the south of France has suffered a bad radioactive spill.
Radioactive fluid has accidentally leaked from a tank in a nuclear power plant.
Some of the fluid has spilled into three rivers nearby and warnings have gone out to local residents.
The authorities have urged people not to drink any water or catch fish from the Gaffiére, Lauzon and Rhône rivers.
Authorities say the level of radioactivity is a hundred percent higher than the amount permitted in an entire year.
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Anonymous
07-09-08, 10:33 AM |
French town in nuclear emergency
Accidents and human error do happen regardless. Suppose we have to live with that fact. On the lighter side. Should make night fishing easy. Worrying though.
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Just Midnight
07-09-08, 07:00 PM |
Not to make light of it but make fishing easier as opposed to what, blasting in the river?
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Cris Whetton
07-10-08, 02:29 AM |
French town in nuclear emergency
1. It did not happen in Avignon, it happened at Bollène (Vaucluse – 84).
2. It was not enriched uranium, so no more radioactive than it is in the ground.
3. It was the concentration of uranium in grams/litre that was 100 times higher, not the radioactivity.
4. The Rhone normally carries uranium, leached from rocks upstream.
Cris Whetton,
Publisher, Hazards Intelligence
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