Safety fears over French nuclear technology

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Source: Telegraph

Safety fears over French nuclear technology
By Peter Allen in Paris
Last Updated: 10:20am BST 31/03/2008


Nuclear reactors of the kind France wants to sell to Britain suffer from "potentially catastrophic" problems, it was claimed yesterday.

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But a letter from France's nuclear safety watchdog, ASN, leaked on a website yesterday, highlighted weaknesses that could undermine the £2.8 billion project.

Pointing out "numerous malfunctions" in the building of the reactor at Flamanville, it calls for them to be corrected in a month. These include weaknesses in steel grids reinforcing the concrete base supporting the reactor.

Such damage could lead to nuclear accidents, threatening the population of northern France, the Isle of Wight and possibly the coast of England.

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Read more: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/03/31/wfra131.xml

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1. A lot of French nuclear reactors are standing

at the border to Germany. Next to the river Rhein ..... the Rhein is passing also the Benelux countries .... a lot of people would be affected if there would be an accident. Let's hope it doesn't happen.

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But a letter from France's nuclear safety watchdog, ASN, leaked on a website yesterday, highlighted weaknesses that could undermine the £2.8?billion project ...

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3. The spokesman of the Network "Sortir du Nucleaire" in police custody

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EPR: the Network To leave the nuclear power aimed by DST

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Document EPR/confidentiel Defense
The spokesman of the Network "To leave the nuclear power" in police custody


Stephan Lhomme was put in police custody since this Tuesday March 25 in 14h in the buildings of Management of the Monitoring of the Territory (DST) at the 84 street of Villiers in Levallois-Perret. This business relates to the publication with the Network "To leave the nuclear power" D’a document classified as "Confidential defense" revealing the vulnerability of engine EPR in the event of crash landing commits suicide of an airliner. For the only detention of this document, Stephan Lhomme risks 5 years of prison and 75 000 euros of fine.

So that all the transparency is made on this file, the Network "To leave the nuclear power" again publishes on its Internet site this document classified as "Confidential defense".

In May 2006, in support for the step of the Network "To leave the nuclear power", a hundred D’associations and members of Parliament had published a copy of the document in question on their respective Web sites.

It is perfectly unjustified that Stephan Lhomme and the Network "To leave the nuclear power" are then worried qu’they try D courageously’to exert their mission D’information citizen.