A safeties outline has been prepared because of the risk of leak. The explosion turns hits the place 11:45 local time. an explosion the Marcoule nuclear power plant in southern France today, kills at least a person and hurts three others, the BBC reports. The place treats nuclear waste and recycleert plutonium from nuclear.
weapons into MOX fuel, but does not include any reactors. The explosion occurred near a furnace, but France's nuclear watchdog tells Reuters that no radioactive material has leaked out.Last March, a level 2 incident had already occurred in the same plant (on a scale up to 7). This incident was initially reported as "level 1" by Areva, but after reviewing the case, the Nuclear Safety Authority (ASN) decided to classify it as "level 2". The ASN asserted it was "the failure of several safety requirements of the installation."
