France admits nuclear security lax after Greenpeace activists enter plant
Interior Minister M. Claude Gueant admitted that security at France's nuclear plants is lax after Greenpeace activists scaled the walls of a nuclear plant. Greenpeace activists gained entry to the...
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Study finds childhood leukemia doubled around French reactors
A major epidemiological study just published in the January 2012 edition of The International Journal of Cancer indicates there is “a possible excess risk” of acute leukemia among children living in...
View ArticleRadioactive leaks at French nuclear reactor
A reactor at the power plant in Penly on the English Channel near the port of Dieppe shut down automatically after two small fires broke out Thursday, the plant’s operator EDF said. Firefighters...
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Embattled Areva moves forward on solar
While cancelations and delays are the norm for Areva nuclear, its solar division is supplying India with two 125 MW plants and is also marketing to Australia and Tucson, AZ amongst other destinations....
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"Atomic Anne" fingers Sarkozy "folly" in pitching nukes to Libya
French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, was actively trying to sell nuclear power to Gaddafi's Libya until the summer of 2010, according to the ex CEO of Areva, Anne Lauvergeon. In fact, the Washington Post...
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Hollande in, but nuclear not necessarily out
The election of François Hollande as the new president of France will not mean a significant reduction in the use of nuclear energy in that country, despite such declarations early on in the campaign...
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Areva found culpable in death of Niger uranium mine worker
French nuclear company, Areva, was found culpable in a court of law last Friday for the death of Serge Venel, a uranium mine worker who toiled from 1978 to 1985 for Areva subsidiary, Cominak, at...
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Hollande shows his pro-nuclear colors in supporting uranium mine in Niger
Newly-elected French President, François Hollande, has confirmed the forebodings of French anti-nuclear activists by coming out in favor of hastening the start of a new uranium mine in Niger. The mine...
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EDF Gets Six Years to Carry Out $12 Billion of Safety Measures
From news reports: Electricite de France SA, operator of the country’s 58 nuclear reactors, has six years to complete about 10 billion euros ($12 billion) of measures to boost safety after Japan’s...
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Explosion at oldest French nuclear plant
The oldest operating French nuclear power plant, at Fessenheim near the German border, suffered a chemical explosion on September 5 that sent 8 workers to the hospital, two of them with steam burns....
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"The Rust-Bucket Reactors Start to Fall"
Harvey WassermanHarvey Wasserman, editor of Nukefree.org and author of Solartopia, has written a blog inspired by the announced closure of the Kewaunee atomic reactor in Wisconsin. He begins by stating...
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Radioactive leak at Flamanville reactor in France
The EDF-owended Flamanville 1 reactor on France's Normandy coast experienced a radioactive leak late on October 24th. Although downplayed by the French nuclear authority, a French watchdog group based...
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Areva moves to wind energy as nuclear continues to slide
From Reuters: French nuclear power engineering giant Areva is planning to set up an offshore wind turbine factory in the east of Scotland, which could create 750 jobs, the group said on Monday. Areva...
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EPR: Four years behind, at least, and now even MORE over-budget
Source: CRILAN, an activist group in Normandy working to stop the EPR reactor at Flamanville and elsewhere and the construction of high-tension transmission line corridors. (CRILAN also serves as the...
View ArticleAreva loses a bundle in 2012
France's state-controlled nuclear engineering giant Areva lost $130 million in 2012 and its business is struggling to move past the Japan's nuclear disaster and a troubled mining venture. The company...
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March 9th human chain in Paris to remember Fukushima
Everyone to Paris, Saturday, March 9th! For those who can - and for the rest of us who'd like to - the French anti-nuclear network will be assembling in Paris in a human chain to remember Fukushima...
View ArticleNuclear France and the uranium fuel chain
A simple and compelling dramatization of the insanity of nuclear dependency in France.
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Bure waste dump plan reaches "public inquiry" phase
Having based its power system on nuclear energy since the mid 1970s, France has accumulated around 2700 cubic metres of high-level radioactive waste and about 40,000 cubic metres of long-lived...
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Suicide bomber strikes at French uranium mine in Niger
As a reminder once again that the possession of nuclear resources can trigger violence, a suicide bomber struck at the Areva-owned Arlit uranium mine in Niger on May 23rd, killing one person and...
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Greenpeace activists breach reactor security in France
Between 20-30 Greenpeace activists successfully broke into a nuclear power plant at the giant Tricastin nuclear facility in southern France on July 15 prompting calls for an examination of security at...
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