爆炸打擊法國 MOX核設施

爆炸打擊法國 MOX核設施
Explosion Hits French MOX Nuclear Site
Threat of radioactive leak at plutonium processing plant
放射性洩漏威脅在钚處理廠
Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
Monday, September 12, 2011
Translation by Autumnson Blog

An explosion at a French nuclear facility that processes dangerous MOX plutonium has killed one person and injured four others, provoking fear that radioactivity could be escaping into the atmosphere, although officials have played down such concerns.
在一處理危險 MOX钚的法國核設施爆炸，已造成一人死亡和四人受傷，引起擔心放射性能逃入到大氣中，雖然官員已在淡化這些顧慮。
However, the French government’s complicity in hiding the severity of the 1986 Chernobyl disaster will do nothing to assuage concerns about authorities being honest with the public about the scale of the problem.
不過，法國政府在1986年切爾諾貝利災難的合謀隱瞞嚴重程度，將無助於紓緩有關當局對公眾的誠實和有關問題規模的關注。
“There were no radioactive leaks after the blast, caused by a fire near a furnace in the Centraco radioactive waste storage site, officials said,” reports BBC News.
“爆炸後沒有放射性洩漏，由Centraco放射性廢物貯存場所的一個熔爐附近引起火災，負責人說，” BBC新聞報導。
“It produces MOX fuel, which recycles plutonium from nuclear weapons, but does not include reactors.”
“它生產 MOX燃料，那從核武器回收钚，但不包括反應堆。”
French nuclear watchdog ASN has not explained the cause of the blast, but conceded that, “The furnace that exploded is used to melt waste with levels of radioactivity ranging from low to very high.”
法國的核監督機構 ASN並沒有解釋爆炸的原因，但承認“該發生爆炸的熔爐是用來融化從低到非常高水平的放射性廢物。”
As we highlighted during the Fukushima crisis, Plutonium is the most deadly radioactive isotope known to man, and MOX is two million times more deadly than normal enriched uranium. The Half-life of Plutonium-239 in MOX is 24,000 years and just a few milligrams of P-239 escaping in a smoke plume will contaminate soil for tens of thousands of years.

Although officials are saying that no radioactivity has escaped, a spokesman for France’s Atomic Energy Commission rather unreassuringly said, “For the time being nothing has made it outside,” authorities would be expected to play down the severity of such an event.

Nuclear power accounts for over 70% of France’s energy needs. Any crisis approaching Fukushima proportions would completely cripple the country’s economy.

However, it is important to note that unlike Japan, France is not recovering from a massive earthquake, therefore any necessary measures to secure the facility will be far easier to perform. In addition, France is the leading country in nuclear safety expertise and can call on a vast number of experienced professionals in the field.

France has painful memories of radioactive contamination, and the country’s government has a history of nuclear cover-ups.

During the Chernobyl disaster, French authorities “deliberately suppressed information about the spread of radioactive fallout.” In parts of France, thyroid cancer surged as the population didn’t take steps to protect itself having believed their government that the radiation cloud was harmless.

“Two independent physicists say in the report that the state-run Central Service for Protection against Radioactive Rays (SCPRI) knew of high levels of contamination in Corsica and southeastern France but kept the details under wraps,” reported Expatica.com.

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