Aneirin
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From: Tamaris
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The International nuclear incident scale I referenced in another thread does actually list a few of france's nuclear fuck ups, but you will notice at what level they actually are, one level 4 a partial core meltdown at Saint Laurent Nuclear power plant in 1969 and again 1980 with graphite overheating. Other than that there were two level 1 accidents, one being TNPC in 2008 and Gravelines in 2009;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Nuclear_Event_Scale
But why are France's fuck ups so low key, perhaps because they don't make big news, the news networks aren't interested so much about France than say the USA, Russia, Japan, UK etc, perhaps the traditional favourites for media interest
Further to that perhaps it is a case of size and date, after Windscale in 1959, it was Three Mile Island in 1979 and Chernobyl in 1986, Fukushima Diiachi of this year became the worst disaster, what next, which country will have one that betters the lot and when, the media are waiting.
But I do agree on your comments about work ethic and how that seems to have given way to corner cutting and cost saving exercises, not a nuclear accident but the BP oil disaster that was Deepwater Horizon was attributed to this very thing.
So perhaps if work ethic is the common problem in these disasters, perhaps it is this that we should be looking at not scratching our heads thinking what next.
Oh, and regards the Chernobyl disaster of 1986, I did not hear about it until a few days after and that because I was backpacking in the English Lake District, camping at tarns and hanging valleys between mountains and putting out pans to catch rainwater to drink. Only when I came down off the tops to seek a pub, the Kirkstone Pass Inn a few days later did I find out about Chernobyl and the warning not to drink the rainwater. Now I live in a part of the country, which features naturally occurring Radon gas.
So, as a tobacco user, am I going to die from lung cancer due to smoking, or exposure to ionising radiation, given that radon gas in the second most likely cause of lung cancer and if I wasn't a smoker, I could still get lung cancer and that from where I like many others live in areas of the country, where radon gas is a naturally occurring hazard. But then, I could get hit by a car and die tommorrow.
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