| Title: |
EDF reassures islanders |
|---|---|
| Author | N-Base Briefing 483, January 28, 2006 |
| Link | https://www.laka.org/docu/tijdschriften/nm/642.pdf  |
| Description | Officials from French state-owned nuclear company EDF attended a public meeting on the island of Jersey in an attempt to offer reassurances for the safety of the proposed new reactor (EPR) at Flamanville in France, just 30 miles from the island. EDF told the meeting that in the worst case, a leakage of radioactivity could not spread beyond a radius of five to ten kilometres from the plant. This is an amazing reassurance to give considering that the EPR has never been built or tested anywhere in the world as yet. Neither is it much of a comfort considering how in the immediate wake of the Chernobyl disaster, France, instead of taking precautions like other European countries, had its state television stations issue weather reports indicating that the cloud of radioactivity from Chernobyl had miraculously stopped short at the Franco-German border. |
| Date | 24 February 2006 |
| Page number | 14-15 |
| Magazine | Nuclear Monitor, Washington DC, VS |
| Year | 0 |
| No | 642 |
| Number of pages | 1 |
| Tags: | CONSTRUCTION NUCLEAR POWER PLANT - (Installations) international + Netherlands EDF - Electricité de France, Paris FLAMANVILLE EPR, FRANCE - location future EPR; France FRANCE - France HEARINGS - hearings and public participation via Internet |
