That facility is right on the Rhone (2nd biggest river in France, the Loire also has several nuclear power stations on its banks, as do a few other rivers), above Avignon, hope there isn't a leak as the Camargue delta (and my mum's home-town) is down-stream. Amazed that there's been anything in the news about it, as the French state is generally incredibly secretive, and very sensitive when it comes to nuclear 'incidents'. At the time that the Chernobyl cloud was passing over Europe, according to my mum's best friend (who lives in France), the cloud was reported by the french media, except that they never mentioned it passing over France...
That facility is right on the Rhone (2nd biggest river in France, the Loire also has several nuclear power stations on its banks, as do a few other rivers), above Avignon, hope there isn't a leak as the Camargue delta (and my mum's home-town) is down-stream. Amazed that there's been anything in the news about it, as the French state is generally incredibly secretive, and very sensitive when it comes to nuclear 'incidents'. At the time that the Chernobyl cloud was passing over Europe, according to my mum's best friend (who lives in France), the cloud was reported by the french media, except that they never mentioned it passing over France...