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Explosion at French Nuclear plant

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One person has been killed and four have been hurt in an explosion at the southern French nuclear plant of Marcoule.

There were no radioactive leaks after the blast, caused by a fire near a furnace in a radioactive waste storage site, a French nuclear official said.

A security perimeter has been set up because of the risk of leakage.

The plant produces MOX fuel, which recycles plutonium from nuclear weapons, but does not include reactors.

It is a major site involved with the decommissioning of nuclear facilities.

The Centraco treatment centre belongs to a subsidiary of national electricity provider EDF.

The plant is located in the Gard department in Languedoc-Roussillon region, near France's Mediterranean coast.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-14883521


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I don't think this is a plant, just a reprocessing center.

Which is not necessarily GOOD, but no active nuclear reaction makes this substantially less dangerous then an active reactor.
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I doubt that is going to matter much...

Right now ANY news involving the word "Nuclear" is going to be met with rampant hysteria. Although given that France is one of the few powers not needlessly curtailing their nuke plants, I am curious if this is going to be treated with a more level head then some of the other things we have seen.
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Its a MOX fuel plant and the blast is now being said to have occurred after a fire in a trash burner; so not anything nuclear at all. In fact this will reduce radiation releases it sounds like, since they use the burner to burn slightly radioactive material like workers protective clothing.
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An accurate headline would have been:

FIRE IN INCINERATOR THAT IS SORT OF NEAR A NUCLEAR POWER PLANT
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And according to the French government, the nuclear industry AND independent measurements, no radioactivity was released to the environment - at all. This is just an bog-standard industrial accident which happened to occur in a facility related to something nuclear.
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Too bad that it will do nothing to stop at least a small call of hysteria.
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