Explosion at French Nuclear Site

Now sit back and watch the media go into a frenzy.

Reportedly resulted from burn down reduction of low level waste such as glove, clothing, utensils, etc. Unverified.

Apparently, this is not a generating facility, but a waste handling facility. According to the media, there has been no radiation leakage, and no possibility of such...

Marcoule NPP (Graphite moderated, gas cooled) was decommissioned in 1984. No NPP there now. Journalists seem not to have updated information.

The blast was in a furnace and has been considered by French Nuclear Safety Authorities as "industrial accident", not a "nuclear one".

It remembers me one similar information read when I begin to work about a "radioactive accident in the Spanish "Puentes de carcía Rodriguez NPP". The plant was a coal fired one under construction and the "nuclear accident" was a gamma radiography source that remained out of the lead container....

One can choose to read newspapers or science. Both together are enemies.

It was the explosion of an oven where the metallic parts were treated. It is an industrial accident. No nuclear accident. If the oven used gas burners it could ahve been a malfucntion wich lead to gas accumulation and following explosion.

On the radio driving home yesterday there was a story being run about this, the reporter said that "because this was a nuclear processing plant, and not a reactor, there is no chance of nuclear explosion or meltdown."

As if there were a chance of nuclear explosion at a nuclear reactor...

It's frustrating to hear this kind of nonsense from what I otherwise consider to be a reputable program. It makes me wonder what other BS they speak without me realizing about topics I'm not as informed about.