Explosion At French Nuclear Site Kills One 262
syngularyx writes "An explosion took place in an oven Monday at the Marcoule nuclear site near the city of Nimes in the south of France. From the article: 'One person was killed and three were injured in the explosion, following a fire in a storage site for radioactive waste, Le Figaro newspaper said. It is a major site involved with the decommissioning of nuclear facilities. emergency services said.'"
Update: 09/12 16:20 GMT by S : Changed headline and summary to reflect that there seems to be no risk of a leak.
Cue more irrational nuclear panic in 3...2... (Score:5, Informative)
In other news, 30 coal miners die each year in the U.S. alone and no one gives a rats ass.
Deaths per terawatt hour (from nextbigfuture.com [nextbigfuture.com]):
Coal – world average: 161
Coal – China: 278
Coal – USA: 15
Oil: 36
Natural Gas: 4
Biofuel/Biomass: 12
Peat: 12
Solar: 0.44
Wind: 0.15
Hydro: 0.10
Nuclear: 0.04
RTFA! (Score:4, Informative)
The article states that there is NO risk of a radioactive leak. Geeezuz H Me, couldn't someone vet this stuff before it gets posted?
Slashdot the new Midnight Sun!!! (Score:3, Informative)
Freak, an oven exploded killing a working in the plant. There IS NO LEAK. THEY EXPECT NO LEAK. THEY DO NOT EXPECT A LEAK!
FREAKING HECK PEOPLE!!!!!
If this was a Lego factory no one would care.
We had two workers die at my local power plant. They where putting giant snow flakes on the smoke stacks for Christmas! Really this is just to the point of being shameful.
HOW BAD IS THIS TITLE!
From the link in the story!!!!!!!!!!
"There was no risk of a radioactive leak after the blast, caused by a fire near a furnace in the Centraco radioactive waste storage site, said officials."
REALLY JUST SHUT DOWN SLASHDOT your are killing it with your abuse!
Re:RTFA! (Score:4, Informative)
Re:From Here : (Score:0, Informative)
Lies. France is particularly transparent regarding nuclear incidents. They even invented a level 0 incident. And absolutely everything is published on the website of the ASN http://www.asn.fr/ . Now if other industries could be even half as transparent
Re:Slashdot the new Midnight Sun!!! (Score:5, Informative)
There are no nuclear reactors at the southern French site
Re:Cue more irrational nuclear panic in 3...2... (Score:5, Informative)
a petroleum pipeline explosion has killed at least 100 [bbc.co.uk] so far today in Kenya.
From linked article:
"The scene is horrific, with charred bodies all around. I cannot differentiate between men and women or boys and girls. All that is left are bones, and the only way to identify the children is from their smaller skeletons."
Re:Cue more irrational nuclear panic in 3...2... (Score:4, Informative)
The linked source claims there are 30000 deaths per year from coal, and 2000 Twh. Those are roughly consistent with your numbers.
They aren't all coal miners, so it's also consistent with the OP.
Re:Cue more irrational nuclear panic in 3...2... (Score:4, Informative)
No, the difference is that we mine far less uranium than we do coal.
Note that it requires about 10,000 times as much coal as natural uranium (the kind you get out of the ground and then enrich to make nuclear fuel) to produce a given amount of energy.
If we were to replace all electricity production in the USA with nuclear plants, we'd need to mine less than one tenth the uranium to run them all than the coal required for ONE big coal-fired plant.
First Sentence of TFA (Score:5, Informative)
Slashdot, please fix the damned headline.
Re:Slashdot the new Midnight Sun!!! (Score:4, Informative)
The papers said the body of one male worker at the plant had been "found carbonised", but it added that there was no evidence that the explosion had "caused any radioactive leak".
A spokesman for the French atomic energy authority told journalists: "For the moment, there is nothing coming out."
Emphasis, mine, obviously.