Published: September 22nd, 2011 at 5:54 pm ET
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Marcoule Nuclear Site, France SOURCE: kmaschke
Paris covers the radioactive source Marcoule accident, Publico (Spain), September 18, 2011:
Google Translation (Emphasis Added)
Contrary to the official version, the victim was irradiated. His coffin was specially shielded antirradiactivo and family could not bring the body
After Monday’s crash in an oven radioactive civil and military nuclear complex at Marcoule, a spokesman for the power giant EDF said it was an incident ” industrial, non-nuclear . ” In turn, the French Minister of Industry, Eric Besson said flatly that there was “no radioactive risks.” According to information provided by the Publico.es on the ground what happens is exactly the opposite: the family has not been anywhere near the irradiated body of the employee who died in the accident, which an autopsy was not done, the family mourned coffin and friends and was buried yesterday wearing a antirradiactivo internal shielding, and crashed into the hangar, now sealed, just enter specialized police protection combinations.
Yesterday took place in the municipality of Chusclan, funerals in memory of José Marín, the employee of 51 years and of Spanish origin who died in a full blown ceremony on Monday, which the prosecutor has called ” volcano erupting “: four tons of radioactive scrap metal in fusion that exploded in the oven Socodei firm, the subsidiary of EDF, which operates the plant Centraco, incineration unit, merger and Marcoule waste conditioning.
The locals do not agree with the Government’s version
The French government and EDF, relying on measurements taken around the plant, have argued that there is no radioactivity in the area, and have even publicly defended the idea that one can not speak, or even of a nuclear accident.
But the people of this region do not agree with the official version. The inhabitants of this area for 50 years talking about behind closed doors and family of cancer cases among professionals in the complex and the risks of radiation.
Everyone talks. Including local police, with whom he could converse public this week. “Fortunately, we have a command of industry that protected us, gave us orders not to enter, and wait for our colleagues specialized risk units Nuclear-Radiological-Chemical-Bacteriological (NRBC),” explains one of the first guards who came the accident, on Monday around noon.
The body of Joseph Martin was extracted by specialized police
Sources of the judicial investigation for “manslaughter and involuntary injuries”, by the specialized gendarmerie headed by three judges, this newspaper reported that the body of José Marín “remained inside the hangar more than 48 hours (up to Wednesday night) with radioactive shrapnel in the body. ”
Confirmed that the body was removed by police units NRBC Paris and Marseille, and authorization was obtained for the Prosecutor not to proceed with the autopsy. And finally, also confirmed that the coffin was delivered to the family, and was veiled in the church of Chusclan since Friday, was sealed with a “protection antirradiactiva light” within. Thus, no one will have seen or been measurements over the body of the deceased.
“The only way to expose the body had been previously performed in the decontamination operation , de facto impracticable because it would lead to melt the body itself, “explains one of the gendarmes responsible for the investigation, trying to understand the senselessness of situation.
Nobody has been able to make measurements of radioactivity in the victim
So the first secret hide the reassuring statements of EDF and the French Government refers to the deceased worker’s body, buried yesterday.
Military Involvement
The second secret is seriously wounded the body of a young worker at the plant that also took the impact, although less direct and less massive, molten shrapnel to 1,300 degrees. It lies between life and death, with third-degree burns on 85% of his body. Was removed from the hangar Monday by a group of firefighters who risked his life , and then could not rescue the deceased.
The young man in critical condition, was immediately transferred to the specialized unit of the Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Montpellier neighbor. After being stabilized, was transferred to a military facility, the Percy Clamart in the Paris region. It is indeed one of the best in France in the treatment of burns, but its main feature is another: depends on the staff of the army.
The third secret, more disturbing is the failure to disclose the contents of the junk that was being burned and that had led to several incidents the week preceding the accident. Despite persistent questions of public , since even before the opening of the inquest, the direction of Socodei Centraco refused to explain who the customers whose radioactive waste was incinerated at the time.
Moreover, the authorities have refused to disclose the results of the analysis filters and sensors in the furnace chimney crashed before, during and after the disaster. Such data would indirectly know the nature of the junk that was being burned, and therefore civil or military nature.
A report by the Parliamentary Office for Evaluation of Scientific and Technological Options (OPECST) 1997, broken furnace then under construction was primarily destined to incinerate the vast amount of waste that are in the Marcoule complex itself, the result of activities, mainly military, which have taken place there since 1958.
No less than three reactors producing plutonium for bombs (G1, G2, G3), a manufacturer of packaging of the nuclear explosive (UP1) and reactors for producing tritium bombs (Celestin) have generated 4,000 tons of radioactive scrap metal ingots , 4,000 tons of irradiated steel, 2000 tonnes of lead irradiated and irradiated concrete 1,100 tons, plus 553 tonnes of ash and minor actinides, fission products are highly toxic.
On May 26, 2009, it recalled that the Parliamentary Office Socodei oven, working by the piece, had become too small and that ” would have to work on a smelter project higher capacity “due to the influx of more than 130,000 tons of radioactive scrap metal new, caused by dismantling more threatening to cause a bottleneck in the world-nuclear country. [...]
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Published: September 22nd, 2011 at 5:54 pm ET
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This does not surprise me one iota…
The mere fact that they were melting down metals, were involved with MOX and then there was sudden media silence. Yes, the usual story.
Condolences to the families all affected
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the southeastearn uk is contaminated with this pollution i believe
criirad have stopped posting spectrometer graphs since the 19th september although they still post reasuring noises
there was an iodine 131 spike on the 18 sept… is that whats polluting europe now??
readings comments here
http://enenews.com/post-radiation-monitoring-data/comment-page-1#comments
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sounds like the people of that area have to mobilise and take thier own readings as criirad are under some constraint obviously!!
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I think criirad’s constraint is money – they are a really small operation and by the look of it have been very stretched over the work they have been doing in Japan. Plus I don’t think their detectors were in direct line (I believe it was North to South) due to the mistral around the dates of the event. The area around Marcoule is one of the worst for radiation in France – look at all the plants along the Rhône. This is the ‘joke’ when the press talks about ‘above background’ radiation. Japan and France suffer from another problem in that they vie yearly for second and third place as the World’s largest consumer of pesticides, herbicides and fongicides. According to Prof. Dominique Belpomme (France’s leading cancer specialist)these chemicals, the nuclear industry and road haulage (particulates) are the three main causes of France’s high cancer stats (1 in 2 men, 1 in 3 women and 1 in 7 couples infertile due to cancer). Add to that, Fukushima’s fallout and any more accidents and the statistics really don’t have anywhere else to go. I watched a video on Fukushima last night showing a car journey along a mainroad and it had all the tell-tale orange verges of intensive herbicide spraying under the crash barriers. There has been non-chemical permanent solutions for this for decades but we’re talking $$$ in loss of profit to Big Pharma. France and Japan have been poisoning themselves since the 50′s. The organic movement and anti-nuclear and anyone with commonsense…
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thinking about it was the iodine 131 a hint at a criticality of some sort??
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The jet stream has been over the UK for a while, it is lifting north now.
If, after the cold front passes, radiation goes up instead of down, it will be because of Fuku, not Marcoule.
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actually bobby1 its the other way around if you look at the weather links, especially the met office one! the forecast shows a front moving in and pushing the european front back into europe and a bit southerly too! england will have atlantic air tommorrow at about 12 i think! but thanks for posting!
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That’s what I meant, if the European air gets pushed back into Europe, and radiation doesn’t go down, it means it’s from Fukushima… the fallout researchers from the 60′s noted that radiation increased after cold fronts passed.
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@ bobby about the cold front… we are all wearing teeshirts in the south uk it has not been cold here yet… indeed the opposite….in the north the weather is different as its having the same weather as west norway mild and wet and very cloudy…we are having a late summer here!!
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Marcoule is in the south of France, isn’t it?
I thought the jet stream brought the air from Brest(Brittany 29) in the West.
I just looked at a motion map and any contamination seems to be going towards Italy and the Med sea.
The UK is probably getting Fuku fallout.
My wife is French and she doesn’t believe that her Govt. would do anything like this.
Poor girl. The truth hurts.
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http://magicseaweed.com/UK-Ireland-MSW-Surf-Charts/1/wind/in/
this showed a couple of days ago the wind coming off the coast of southern france, going out to sea slightly southerly and then swinging back, colliding with the atlantic front and moving northeast towards southeast ebgland along a cloudy front that headed to southern scandinavia/denmark… the delay getting to london was due to the large distance travelled by the plume…unfortunatly the atlantic front blew it back onto europe and criirad have gone on holiday…at least the spectroanalysis graphs no longer being updated….crirad give detailed analysis within 24 hrs, as stated on thier website… it is now more than 100 hours just saying …
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heres the link fro the met that shows the front moving in amd it was clearer when i posted to you on the radiation forum…heres the link
http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/satpics/latest_IR.html
and the more detailed wind chart for the english channel/french coast showing the mixing and movement of the pollution clouds/cloud….
oh and zarkosy and cameron in the usa, convenient! any comment on the iodine spike?
you can follow the plumes by following the politicians and thier families, know what i mean geezer…just my take on it though!! lol
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of course the jet stream is connected to cloud movement too but there are different strata of the atmosphere effected here….the one im interested in is the lower atmosphere winds (theres been little rain here) from france or wherever….my evidence shows that this is from france and i have other evidence that hints at what might have really occoured… im just too stupid to make proper sense of the data…
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arclight, keep us posted the next couple days about the Geiger readings, I think they will tell us a lot about what is happening in Europe.
The jet stream is over Denmark and Sweden now.
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also remember that i got lower readings as headed north and north east from london!
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@bobby1
levels have dropped as the atlanfic front has moved forward…pushing the european front back….so it is possible that the air in northern europe has contamination, unfortunately….. criirad still update the statement that everything is ok, even dated the 23rd but click on the link of spectrometers they stop on the morning of the 19th september…still
also there were some peaks and troughs of iodine131 and beta particles as reported on the radiation reading forum! since then nada!
most odd …. 130 hrs and still waiting for the graphs!!
the european weather front might be back though! will keep you posted
peace
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@bobby the front is back, if you know what i mean grrr
http://enenews.com/post-radiation-monitoring-data/comment-page-4#comment-134516
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Good God. That’s what taking a few hours away does for me. Posted here – should show soon:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-crosby/danger-signs-americas-so-_b_974335.html
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That is what you get if you EXPERIMENT with plutonium. Plutonium for everyone! Yes plutonium plant it is not less yes they burn waste as cover up –No we stopped making plutonium we only burn waste now.– Later we see they make MOX and yes they create lots amount of PLUTONIUM 238 241 etc the main reason the plants breaths heavy.
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There is radiation released if they find any in europa they will blaim JAPAN!
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The Germans had this out of control AVR reactor which highly contaminated and they blamed Chernobyl for radiation which did happen few day’s later..
“Concerning beta-contamination AVR is the highest contaminated nuclear installation worldwide as AVR management confirmed 2001″
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AVR_reactor
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The AVR accident happened 8 years before Chenobyl, not “a few days” before.
If we want to fight the nuclear industry we have to argue with real facts. Anything else will damage our reputation.
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Also, increased public scrutiny following both the Chernobyl accident and the THTR-300 fuel pebble event of May 4, 1986, in which a fuel pebble became lodged in a fuel feed pipe to the core and some radioactive dust was released to the environment..
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/THTR-300
Read here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pebble_bed_reactor#Thorium_High_Temperature_Reactor starting here: Thorium High Temperature Reactor
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You didn’t even provided a link from your source tomb1..
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Well if you have time (i posted this before) also read THIS “Rainer Moormann (2008). A safety re-evaluation of the AVR pebble bed reactor operation and its consequences for future HTR concepts” Link to PDF: http://hdl.handle.net/2128/3136 (Skip German parts)
It has the info of the nasty contamination and all it flaws of the AVR reactor in Jülich Germany..
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You mixed up the AVR (Test Facility, Jülich) with the THTR (Production Facility, Hamm-Uentrop) in the first post. Same Technology, different reactors. The AVR vessel will be decomissioned 2011/12, which will be an extremely dangerous activity. The THTR has to wait until 2027.
You find this all in Wikipedia, at least in the German version.
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Tomb1 It’s true, i mixed that up i’m sorry for that! So the contamination from THTR-300 was blamed on Chernobyl. The one in Julich is the highest contaminated nuclear power plant in the world and released also alot of shit to the public.
But please next time give links where you read from so i (and others) can get a faster look at it even if it’s not in english. My first language is Dutch, then of course i know English and i know German (well writing in German still difficult) the rest i google translate.
Together we (good) people can manage everything!
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Thanks, P. Sorry, I did not provide links because I did not have any English sources and didn’t expect that someone is willing to read German
I’ve been living near the AVR for 10 years (totally ignoring what it is), now live ~ 100 km to the northwest from there. I hope they know what they are doing when they dismantle it.
With all the other NPPs west from here (mainly France but also NL and B) me and my family startet to think about moving to a better place to grow our children.
Good that Germany stops this stuff, but it will be dangerous for many many years and yes, stopping and dismantling NPPs is statistically much more dangerous than keeping them running. Of course that’s no reason to keep them online. We have to stop them worldwide. ASAP.
–tomb1
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hi tomb1 we have german speakers on the forum and we have the googlies speak thing or babel… post away!
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I feel sorry for everyone west of that place, though.
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Just a reminder for those who want to READ OVER Outnow’s great additions on the subject:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/outnow?action=comments
If there’s one thing Whoopie is good at, it’s CONNECTING PEOPLE. I’m good at spreading links and connecting. No schooling here. But I’m cool with that. I learn from people like Outnow and so many here at Enenews! (too many to name)
TY!
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France has contaminated more of Europe than they will ever admit.
The channel has hundreds of containers full of waste that has been dumped.
Areva and its reprocessing centers are to blame for contamination in the air, channel, sea and land.
58 reactors in a country no bigger than Texas.
210 uranium mines, either closed or active.
France kills.
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They probably put things like iodine in our water and food now..
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Mostly they pollute the channel. Place radioactive rocks at ski lodges and use radioactive tailings in pavement.
There is no safe place to live in France that is radiation free.
Where my wife is from in Brest, there are warheads stored in the naval port, nuclear powered warships and a decommissioned reactor 35 Km from her home town.
I wanted to retire there. d
Don’t think I will now.
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“French System For Cleaning Fukushima Water Blamed For Leukemia, Polluted Beaches In Europe”
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffmcmahon/2011/04/25/french-plan-to-clean-fukushimas-radioactive-water-detailed-including-risks/
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Good link Mack thx
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From http://iicph.org/news_0702-blind-river
Uranium cannot be destroyed by incineration. Uranium is pyrophoric, which means that when it is in fine particles, it can catch fire even at normal temperatures. By incinerating it, it will burn at 3,000 to 6,000 degrees centigrade. This will turn the uranium particles into ceramic uranium that is not soluble in body fluids if breathed into the lungs. When this metal vapour finally solidifies in the cooling air, it forms respirable particles, some will be nanometre particles (a nanometre is I billionth of a metre). These are so small that they can pass through the lung-blood barrier, they can escape from the blood vessels and enter into the cells. They can also pass through the blood-brain barrier and enter into the brain itself. They have been found in male seminal fluid, and in the female, they can cross the placenta and cause havoc to the developing embryo or foetus.
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Oh joy.
sigh….
Good info there Mark. Now where did I put that respirator? Ahhh that’s right, I threw it away – it won’t do any good, because the particulates are so small.
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Think I agree with Lacsap. Nobody was testing for radiation before Fuki. Now Geiger Counters on back order. You get a spiked reading and assume its Fukushima. But all these old crappy reactors were running before and plutonium enrichment and all the rest of the junk science invisibly polluting. High readings in England could be a sum of Fukushima and French radio-active pollution. Same with high readings in Eastern States. Lots of crappy old reactors there as well with MSM reporting doctored radiation tests of Texas water. Wake up call for everybody, No Nukes.
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As Rah says that there are 58 reactors in France and a reactor costs around 3,5 billion dollars so 58 reactors = 203 billion dollars (203000000000). So they have to sell alot of power to public to get that money back + all the other costs to keep running them and then they have to make profit also. Impossible or not..
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It’s a business for them.
They will now sell more to Germany. Just because Germany shuts theirs down doesn’t mean they have enough power plants to pick up the loss.
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Hi RAH,
despite half of Germany’s nuke plants being off the grid, Germany still exports more energy than it imports.
Crazy, huh? I bet the French are upset.
Ragards to your wife – France is a wonderful country – if only…..
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Ok i give it a quick ruff calculation and they make with powering 80% of the public at least 36 billion a year, then they have all the cost for running the plant that i could not know how much that is but they still would make enough money it seems.
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hi lascap before i crash just thought id add some more nuke profits to the discussion
nuclear medicine
nuclear industrial
nuclear reprossesing
nuclear decommisioning
nuclear weapons
nuclear food
even bleedin smoke detectors arghhh!
oh and dont get me started on oncology profits projections for the private sector….grrrrr! maybe another day…eh!
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Figure also, the 40 year lifespan of these facilities.
Up until recently, if you lived in France and worked for EDF, the national electric utility, your electricity was free.
Sarko is now the worlds greatest nuclear salesman.
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RAH, I work in Luxembourg (across the border from Cattenom). I was at a meeting yesterday where an informed politician said she knows internal papaers from EDF stating they want to expand Cattenom’s operational time to up to 100 years.
(60 years have been discussed so far).
I’m disgusted, and i need to move away from here. Something will go terribly wrong there.
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were addicted to uranium as much as oil.
with a 60 years history of atomic self immolation
burn baby burn
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From the article: “…Socodei would have to work on a higher capacity smelter project ‘due to the influx of more than 130,000 tons of radioactive scrap metal caused by dismantling ….”
The French government is going to burn German nuclear material as the Germans dismantle their nukes.
Just saying.
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You Earthmen find it easier to understand the death of one than the death of a million.
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Our leaders learned from the cruelest…Lenin, Hitler, Stalin, ….the Aztecs.
Stalin: ” A SINGLE death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.”
“Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas?”
Unsourced Stalin quote:
“When I am gone, the capitalists will drown you like blind kittens.”
SP: Sounds like vintage Stalin!
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