FRANCE: NUCLEAR PLANT DIRECTOR SAYS RADIATION INCIDENT WAS NOT SERIOUS.

Record ID: 326476

  • Title: FRANCE: NUCLEAR PLANT DIRECTOR SAYS RADIATION INCIDENT WAS NOT SERIOUS.
  • Date: 23rd May 1986
  • Summary: 1. GV Village of Cap De La Hague. 0.04 2. SV Sign pointing to village. 0.08 3. GVs Views of village. 0.16 4. GV PAN La Hague nuclear reprocessing plant. 0.28 5. SV Sign Usine de la Hague'. 0.31 6. GV & SV Security at gates and door. (2 SHOTS) 0.40 7. GV PAN Working area within double security fence. 0.54 8. CU Manager of plant Jean Parmentier speaking, (French SOT) 2.03 9. CU Plant doctor Monsieur Quennes speaking. (French SOT) 2.21 10. GV Distant view of island of Aurigny. 2.28 InitialsCC/JS Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 7th June 1986 13:00
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  • Location: CAPE DE LA HAGUE, FRANCE
  • Country: France
  • Topics: General
  • Reuters ID: LVA5W0U2GCOCKANVKYR6AV6PJ9YP
  • Story Text: CAPE DE LA HAGUE, FRANCE

    Five workmen received radiation doses above the normal annual level while repairing a nuclear waste reprocessing plant at Cap De La Hague in Normandy on May 20. The plant's director, Jean Parmentier, told a reporter on May 22 that the accident was regrettable, but luckily it had not been too serious. La Hague's doctor, Monsieur Quennes, said none of the men would suffer long-term effects. The accident occurred when the five men were working on a length of pipe which had not been in use for a long time. They did not realise they had been irradiated until they had finished the job. The French nuclear operating company, COGEMA, stressed that the men were not contaminated as the masks they wore prevented them from inhaling radioactive particles. Two of the men received doses of 18 and 11 rems respectively -- the annual limit is 5 rems. On the same day that COGEMA revealed these details, Electrocute de France, the state-owned utility, confirmed that in 1984 an electrical failure at the Bugey nuclear plant in south-east France led to the country's most serious nuclear incident, but a spokesman denied that it was a severe accident. Both incidents have been publicised at a time of public concern following the recent disaster at Chernobyl in the Soviet Union.

    <strong>Source: REUTERS - FRANCK BRISSET</strong>
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