Pave: Une nation qui rayonne dans le monde III

Le jour 429 de Sarko

A little follow-on.

We're not talking about dishwater here. This is a dangerous radioactive material.

Ben Ayliffe,
head of nuclear campaigns at Greenpeace,
making an alarming distinction
(infra)

I don't want people to feel that we are hiding anything from them.

Jean-Louis Borloo,
ministre d’Etat, ministre de l’Ecologie,
de l’Energie, du Développement durable
et de l’Aménagement du territoire,
reassuring the French that nothing is hid --
in less time then it takes to pronounce his title
(infra)

La population est inquiète et ne croit plus aux chiffres officiels.

[The local population is worried and no longer believes official figures.]

André-Yves Becq,
deputy mayor of Bollène,
revealing that the locals are not team players
17 juillet 2008 (Le Monde)

BONJOUR ATOMIQUE !
Oh! Don't Mind Us. Just Checking The Dosimeter. Omigod!
[Blinky is a cartoon mutant fish and not a French national;
The Simpsons™ & © 2008. Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation.]

FRANCE ORDERS TESTS
ON ALL NUCLEAR POWER STATIONS AFTER LEAK
Fears Over France's Nuclear Reactors Have Been Raised
As The Government Orders Ground Water Tests At Its 58 Power Stations,
After A Uranium Leak At One Polluted Local Water Supplies.

PARIS July 17, 2008 (Telegraph) - The safety lapse at a plant in Provence run by French nuclear giant Areva has raised questions over President Nicolas Sarkozy's drive to roll out reactors around the world – in Britain but also in states with less stringent safety norms.

... Residents in Bollène in the Vaucluse, southern France – a top tourist area – have been told not to drink water or eat fish from nearby rivers, after 74kg of liquid uranium was spilled on July 7 at the Tricastin nuclear plant. Swimming and water sports were also banned along with irrigating crops with the contaminated water, which reached two rivers [scil., the Gaffière and the Lauzon].

... It has been declared all vegetables and crops irrigated just after the leak fit for consumption, but residents around Bollène, where the power station is located, said they feared for their health.

... [André-Yves Becq, the deputy mayor of Bollène] said Socatri [operator of the site and a subsidiary of Areva] inspectors "suspiciously" told one family that dangerously high levels of contamination in its water supply were due to a "dirty measurement instrument".

[L'attitude de la Socatri, qui a fait des prélèvements de nuit et a tenté d'expliquer une teneur en uranium de 64 microgrammes d'uranium par litre d'eau, chez un particulier, par une souillure des instruments de mesure, nous a paru suspecte.]

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