Deadly blast at French nuclear facility

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Deadly blast at French nuclear facility

An explosion at the southern France nuclear facility of Marcoule killed one person and wounded four Monday.

The blast at the facility, which recycles plutonium from nuclear weapons to make fuel to provide electricity, was caused by a "fire near a furnace in the Centraco radioactive waste storage site," the BBC reported.

The facility's owner, French national electricity provider EDF, described the explosion as "an industrial accident, not a nuclear accident."

"The fire caused by the explosion was under control," an EDF spokesman told the BBC. The fire occurred at approximately 11:45 a.m. local time.


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