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The State of the Environment in La Hague
| Author | ACRO |
| Date | August 1995 |
| Classification | 2.02.8.10/11 (FRANCE - LA HAGUE - GENERAL) |
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From the publication:
ACRO ACRO (Association pour le Contrôle de la Radioactivité dans l'Ouest) was created in 1986 after the French government claimed that the Chernobyl radioactive cloud never reached France. After a subscription campaign which enabled us to buy a gamma-spectrometer, it started to make measurements of radioactivity in the environment and has shown that some radioactivity, mainly cesium, did come to France ! The organisation started monitoring the environment at nuclear sites in the North- West of France, with the help of its three offices in Cherbourg, Rouen and Tours. Alongside this, to get its results known, it publishes a quarterly review, L'AOROnique du nucléaire, which contains all the ACRO's results and some articles about problems linked to nuclear industry. It is one of the only independent reviews exclusively devoted to these topics in France. ACRO also has some representatives attending local information commissions of La Hague, but also of Penly and Paluel nuclear power plants. Though regularly facing financial problems, ACRO is still here and beginning to be quite notorious in France. Its scientific credibility was accepted by nuclear industry after a test where various laboratories, including ACRO, measured the same samples and obtained the same results (1). ACRO was found to be very necessary from the beginning when it revealed that contaminated first-age powder milk was sold in France. It also revealed pollution incidents in various places in France, ranging from a former clock factory using radium in St Nicolas d'Aliermont to waters in La Hague as you will discover further.
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