Look, France has Nuclear Power and it’s safe!
July 9th, 2008 • Related • Filed Under
By Donvictimiti
I guess your version of safe depends on how much Uranium you allow to leak from your power plant though.
Authorities banned the consumption of well water in three nearby towns and the watering of crops from the two rivers. Swimming, water sports and fishing were also banned.
A spokeswoman for the nuclear safety agency, Evangelia Petit, said about 7,925 gallons of solution containing uranium spilled at a factory at the Tricastin nuclear site, about 25 miles from the historic city of Avignon.
Comment by MikeW on 9 July 2008 at 1:44 pm:
mmmm, three-eyed fish.
Comment by liberalgeek on 9 July 2008 at 1:49 pm:
The third eye is for flavor!
Comment by arthur on 9 July 2008 at 2:03 pm:
we already have 3 eyed fish and no nuclear power in sight. thanks uncle dupie
Comment by Von Cracker on 9 July 2008 at 2:22 pm:
Doesn’t Grenoble rhyme with Chernobyl?
Comment by Von Cracker on 9 July 2008 at 2:24 pm:
I still think there’s a place for Nuclear Power, though.
Comment by Delaware's Most Attractive Blogger on 9 July 2008 at 3:04 pm:
yes, Crawford, Tx
Comment by G Rex on 9 July 2008 at 3:47 pm:
Okay, so we won’t use French engineers to build our nuke plants, or let our forklift drivers drink wine with lunch. Maybe if the French had more German engineers…
Comment by Anders on 10 July 2008 at 1:33 pm:
Unenriched Uranium
Unenriched uranium is about as hazardous as lead. Clearly, we should be concerned about any environmental releases, and under no circumstances would I argue against strict industrial hygiene laws or tough penalties.
However, I also think our concern should be proportional to the actual health/environmental risk, and not part of some knee jerk emotional response. Spills of equal consequences almost certainly occur at any site that mines or processes any heavy metal – I’m not saying that this is acceptable, but perhaps we should consider that the environmental remediation steps taken at a e.g. a cadmium mine are likely several orders of magnitude less stringent.
This was not a spill at a nuclear power plant. This is not a nuclear power issue, this is a metal processing issue and no one would have even noticed if it were not for the hysteria over all things nuclear.