Sep 12, 2011
Explosion at Marcoule nuclear plant
UPDATE: Rory CL at the BBC tweeted that there has been no leak of radioactive materials.
AFP is reporting an explosion at Marcoule, located in the Chusclan and Codolet French communes, near Bagnols-sur-Cèze in the Gard department, within Côtes-du-Rhône region. Marcoule site of first industrial and military plutonium experiments. Diversification of the site was started in the 1970s with the creation of the Phénix prototype fast breeder reactor, and is today an important site for decommissioning nuclear facilities activities.
BBC reports: “One person was killed and three were injured in the explosion, following a fire in a storage site for radioactive waste.”
Where’s the evidence that things are worse than they were in the past, the West at least (it’s always been and still is bad for billions of people outside the developed world)? I think all that’s changed is that we have 24 hour rolling news and every single thing gets reported…
Yea, It is so scary when we have these great technologies at our finger tips, but we do not have full control over them.
How long it will take us to gain control over our technologies before disasters start occurring around the world. Even though this event in France does not look big, I wonder why things are becoming more serious on earth, it seems.