The following news item appeared today. Apparently the French are not terribly concerned and, in fact, President Nicolas Sarkozy pledged that France will stick to a plan to invest euro1 billion ($1.37 billion) in future nuclear reactors. Neighboring Germany, on the other hand, took eight of its older reactors off the grid in the wake of the Japanese disaster and plans to shut the country's nine remaining nuclear plants by 2022. PARIS -- A nuclear waste site in southern France had an explosion Monday that killed one person, seriously burned another and slightly injured three others, France's nuclear safety body said.
The Nuclear Safety Authority said no radioactive leaks have been detected in the blast at 12:37 p.m. (1037 GMT, 6:37 a.m. EDT) at an oven in the Centraco nuclear site. The accident was under control within the hour, the agency said in a statement.
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