Committed
to Nuclear Power ? Now what ?
Paris
:
“Thousands
of protesters marched in the city carrying banners with slogans “Stay
inactive today and you’ll be radioactive tomorrow”
Greenpeace
climb
Eiffel
Tower
in nuclear protest
PARIS
(Reuters) - About 15 environmental activists climbed the Eiffel Tower on Sunday
to unfurl a banner protesting against France's nuclear energy policies,……..
French
uranium leak prompts swimming ,
fishing and drinking ban
The
consumption of well water in three towns in the Vaucluse region and the
irrigation of crops using water from the Gaffiere and Lauzon rivers are also
prohibited
Visitors
to a popular French tourist region have been warned not to swim or fish in two
rivers after uranium leaked from a factory.
AFP/GETTY
Authorities
say 18,000 liters of liquid containing unenriched uranium have leaked from the
Tricastin nuclear site
………
France
's nuclear safety agency said liquid containing traces of unenriched uranium
leaked from the Tricastin nuclear site near
Avignon
and that uranium concentrations in the Gaffiere river were initially about
1,000 times the normal levels. As
usual the company is still down playing the incident.
Local
authorities say 18,000 liters (4,755 gallons) containing 224 kilograms (493
pounds) of natural unenriched uranium escaped into the environment.
http://www.telegrap
h.co.uk/news/
worldnews/
europe/france/
2279320/French-
uranium-leak-
prompts-swimming
-ban.html
French
authorities keep water ban after nuclear leak
|
The
Tricastin nuclear plant in Bollene.
|
by
Staff Writers
Marseille
,
France
(AFP) July 9, 2008
Residents
in southern
France
were told not to drink water or eat fish from rivers on Wednesday following an
uranium leak at a nuclear plant that
Germany
's junior environment
minister said was "not a small matter
Germany
has sworn off nuclear power
Germany
’s
oldest reactors from the 1970s will go offline by 2009 at the latest. All
remaining reactors must be shut down by 2021.
http://www.energy-
daily.com/
reports/French_
authorities_
keep_water_
ban_after_
nuclear_leak_
999.html
A
nuclear renaissance ? Don’t bet on it
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