Published: September 12th, 2011 at 5:39 pm ET
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Fatal blast rocks French nuclear waste site, France24, September 12, 2011:
[...] An expert at the Institute for Radioprotection and Nuclear Safety in Paris, Olivier Isnard, said radioactive levels in the oven were only around 17 becquerels per kilo — “very, very low” — at the time of the blast. [...]
Radioactivity measurements of agricultural products
Indices for limiting food and drinks ingestion (Nuclear Safety Commission of Japan)
- Radioactive Iodine 2000Bq/kg
- Radioactive Cesium 500Bq/kg
Food or drink products in Japan may contain 1,999 Bq/kg of iodine-131 as well as 499 Bq/ of cesium, for a total of 2,498 Bq/kg of radioactivity — and that is only accounting for those two isotopes.
That’s about 150 times higher radioactivity levels than are reported to be in the nuclear waste that was involved in today’s explosion in France.
Published: September 12th, 2011 at 5:39 pm ET
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I'll BITE and post to Gregory Thread though 
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Ahh, good catch.
So what we have here is a regular “whiteout” of PR messages. “I don’t care what you tell them, tell them whatever you have to so they go away!”. “Oui, oui, sir”.
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They probably use the same scale-it-down factor as the Japanese.
Looking at the photo from fastnews24, I would say it is more than just a small fire.
http://fastnews24.com/tag/1-dead-at-french-nuclear-explosion/
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I don’t think that’s a photo of this place. The google images I saw didn’t show any cooling towers like that, and it was in the middle of an urban area – I didn’t see any trees like that either.
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Maybe this place:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2011/09/12/france-nuclear-plant-explosion.html
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When are we gonna learn that there is no place on earth to put the waste that they are creating.
From the article xdrfox posted…
The group quoted in its report the French Court of Accounts as saying: “The circumstances of this reconditioning are complicated by the ignorance of the operator of the exact content of the drums produced prior to 1995 and therefore the level of radioactivity: it is one of the stunning facts from a time when nuclear safety was not at the centre of preoccupations.
The IPFM said that in 1967 and 1969, “46,396 waste barrels were dumped into the sea off the coasts of Spain and Brittany,” including 3,479 from the liquid waste treatment facility at Marcoule.
The exact radioactivity of the low-level liquid waste is “highly uncertain because of uncertainties in the accounting and inventorying of radioactive waste on the Marcoule site,” said the IPFM.
James Acton, an expert in nuclear policy at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, said that if the information from officials is accurate,, the Marcoule accident does not appear to be serious. Monitoring whether any radiation is released will be a top priority for the next few hours, he said, adding it’s still “unlikely” Monday’s incident will turn the French public off nuclear power.
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@Jebus
Question (pardon my ignorance):
“Initial reports suggest there was an explosion in an oven used to melt metallic low- and very low-level radioactive waste,” the ASN said.
An EDF spokesman said: “This is an industrial accident, not a nuclear accident.”
“In this kind of oven, there are two sorts of waste: metallic waste such as valves, pumps and tools and combustible waste such as technicians’ work outfits or gloves,” the spokesman said.”
What becomes of this liquid?
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Cliquez ice: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/1-dead-1-injured-following-explosion-nuclear-waste-reprocessing-facility-marcoule-france
It’s a huge place. The Marcoule site is pixelated out on Google Earth.
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I meant “ici.”
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That looks like the fire from a few months back !
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Maybe Japan should breif their stokers about the possibility of …. !!!
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So, if I eat a Fuji apple from Sendai, I may blow up … ?
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Would slush their wine to quickly either !
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Wouldn’t
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Who in the Wide Wide World of Sports is gonna believe anything the World Wide Nuclear Industry is gonna P.R.?
…The P.R.’rs are all Ponzie Lies just like the World Banking system’s.
Time to nuke Iran because they will be found to be the cause for all these questionable accidents?
…Payback for Stuxnet…
red red wine
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The France nuclear plant Marcoule is used from the beginning of the 70′s by the France army to experiment with plutonium.. Today it’s being rent to AREVA for digestion of nuclear waste.. ..
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17Bq/kg only ??? sorry but i live 300 km away from this plant and if this is really true, then we are all rotten to death since a while ! it is speculated that the average contamination in france after chernobyl was about 4000Bq/m2 (in other words a bit more than 60Bq/kg). CRIIRAD even showed that some cities like Strasbourg in north east of France got 40000Bq/m2 and that’s only for cesium 137 !! (sooo more than 600Bq/kg)
So taking this in consideration, living in an oven from a nuclear waste treatment facility is like a paradise! Well didn’t they mention four tons of metal with at last 67000 Becquerels in ?
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@Daruma,
What about the radiation from all the uranium trailings that has been spread all around France – on the roads, etc. Do you know anything about this. : 210 uranium mines, the residue materie´l spread on roads, sports stadiums, parking lots… Most local roads now radiate all around France. This is the first part in a long series on the subject.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHvnmcaOnCU
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@Darth
Sure, i am well aware about this problem, but where i live, nobody seems to know about this problem. In fact most of french people don’t have a clue about it, although this is really not something new.. you probably heard about Tricastin right ? well In 2008 there was a leak of depleted uranium in the rivers around. Just more and more uranium in it but local residents don’t know it at all because this incident was hidden from local interest…
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@Daruma
No I haven’t heard about it. Do have English links, info or brief summary for us to read?
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Hi Darth, sorry for jumping in…Daruma probably was referring to the explosion / fire in the transformator buiolding on July 2 this year. The plumes were quite impressive:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-YM27tQpEQ
Tricastin is a huge nuclear plant in the south of France, with a long list of incidents. in the beginnig of the documentary “Uranium – is it a country?” CRIIRAD takes readings outside the fence, behind which the nuclear material is stored “open air”. It was available on Youtube and worth to watch.
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That is funny, processing waste that’s less radioactive than your average cucumber….more cooked book lies.
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Yeah,…and I hear that they are a MOX fuel facility! Let us remember that TPTB ONLY lie if their lips are moving, K? K!
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@ Tricastin Nuclear Power Plant..July 2 2011.
13 km.from this site.
They lie day and night.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xjqawa_incendie-a-la-centrale-de-tricastin-2-juillet-2011_webcam
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This jewel is 34 km..away.
http://www.lost-in-france.com/french-news/954-safety-risk-cruas
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The MELOX plant continuously measures the impact of its activity on the environment. Aside from the inspections carried out by CEA Marcoule on the ecosystem, liquid and gaseous wastes are subject to close monitoring.
Read the monthly environmental newsletter on the CEA website
Well you cant, the link has been terminated! Lol!!
“Gaseous discharge form the two nuclear buildings originate from the ventilation of the glove boxes and the facilities. These are released into the atmosphere after three stages of high efficiency filtration. This discharge is released from two chimneys located on the nuclear buildings. Before discharge, the wastes undergo several tests using two systems of filters and alarms located in the chimneys: “
Trust that do we??
http://www.areva.com/EN/operations-1208/melox-measures-the-impact-of-its-activity-on-the-environment.html
“The production of plutonium is carried out in two main industrial stages. The first involves the irradiation of uranium fuels by neutrons in nuclear reactors. The second involves the chemical separation of plutonium from the uranium, transuranic elements and fission products contained in discharges of irradiated fuel. The second techniques is usually referred to as “reprocessing” when applied commercially and “plutonium separation” when carried out for military purposes”
http://www.isis-online.org/publications/fmct/primer/Section_II.html
some examples here of the relative size of thr biggest plants that…
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some examples here of the relative size of thr biggest plants that reprossess/seperate
Russia
Krasnojark
1,500 Capacity tU/a
Great Britain
Sellafield, Magnox
1,500 Capacity tU/a
Great Britain
Sellafield, THORP
1,200 Capacity tU/a
France
Marcoule, UP 1
1,200 Capacity tU/a
USA
West Valley
300 Capacity tU/a
Total global production 8093 tU/a
So it looks like france and the uk produce half of the reprocessed fuel…. Handy chart at the bottom of the link…lol nuclear financing, huh?? This could be a big crisis for nuclear plants everywhere….cant say I will lose any sleep though!! Lol!!
http://www.theenergylibrary.com/node/11954
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West Valley Reprocessing Plant
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Valley_Reprocessing_Plant
This plant was in NY, but closed down in 1972.
Savannah River Site
“Currently none of the reactors on-site are operating (see list of nuclear reactors), although two of the reactor buildings are being used to consolidate and store nuclear materials. SRS is also home to the Savannah River National Laboratory and the nation’s only operating radiochemical separations facility. Its tritium facilities are also the United States’ only source of tritium, an essential component in nuclear weapons. And, the nation’s only mixed oxide fuel (MOX) manufacturing plant is being constructed at SRS. When operational, the MOX facility will convert legacy weapons-grade plutonium into fuel suitable for commercial power reactors.
“Future plans for the site cover a wide range of options, including host to research reactors, a reactor park for power generation, and other possible uses. DOE and its corporate partners are watched by a loose combination of local, regional and national regulatory agencies and citizen groups….”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savannah_River_Site
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This list a number of world-wide sites:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_reprocessing
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Marcoule explosion in France – it’s an AREVA plant
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/sep/12/french-nuclear-plant-rocked-explosion
“The ASN said it had activated its emergency plan after the explosion, which happened at about 11.45am local time (10.45am BST) and sparked a fire.
The Marcoule site in the Languedoc-Roussillon region, which covers 140 hectares, was a military site for research into the atom bomb when it opened in 1956. It later produced France’s first nuclear electricity. Today, it is home to a range of nuclear activities including fuel production and waste reprocessing and is partly used by the French nuclear power giant Areva. It also produces what is known as Mox (mixed oxide) fuel, made by recycling plutonium from nuclear weapons, with natural, reprocessed or depleted uranium, that can be used in light-water reactors used in nuclear power production….”
France’s energy and ecology minister, Nathalie Kosciuscko-Morizet, flew to the site on Monday afternoon to take part in an “evaluation of the eventual radiological impacts of the accident”, according to a ministry spokesperson.”
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From Le Monde
http://www.microsofttranslator.com/BV.aspx?ref=IE8Activity&a=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.lemonde.fr%2Fplanete%2Farticle%2F2011%2F09%2F12%2Fle-site-de-marcoule-berceau-de-l-industrie-nucleaire-du-retraitement_1571279_3244.html
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This from infowars : “As we highlighted during the Fukushima crisis, Plutonium is the most deadly radioactive isotope known to man, and MOX is two million times more deadly than normal enriched uranium. The Half-life of Plutonium-239 in MOX is 24,000 years and just a few milligrams of P-239 escaping in a smoke plume will contaminate soil for tens of thousands of years.”
Makes me see now that MOX contains Plutonium 239 and not 238.. F*ck
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Have they shut down all information about this? Are there zero new reports today?
Unless the above statement about “criticality” was totally bogus – this story simply must be followed up on.
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