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Activists block restart of French nuclear reactor construction (Updated)

Feature story | June 26, 2008 at 0:00

Twenty of our activists have successfully stopped construction of a new nuclear reactor being built in Flamanville, France, from restarting, for over 50 hours. Although building was halted because of safety problems, these are still unresolved.

French nuclear "flagship" holed below the water line

Feature story | May 27, 2008 at 0:00

France’s nuclear safety agency today took the commendable step of ordering construction work to be halted on the concrete base slab of the new European Pressurised Reactor, Flamanville 3, in northern France. Over recent months, the agency’s...

Chernobyl anniversary protest

Feature story | April 26, 2007 at 0:00

On this day 21 years ago a nuclear reactor near the Ukraine city of Chernobyl suffered a steam explosion and a nuclear meltdown. Winds spread the radioactive fallout over thousands of square kilometres. Now, risky new nuclear reactors are under...

Spook scandal: the hidden face of the nuclear industry

Feature story | April 2, 2009 at 16:09

Twenty-four years after the attack by the French secret services against our ship the Rainbow Warrior - which cost the life of a Greenpeace photographer - the nuclear industry is once again at the heart a major spy scandal involving Greenpeace.

France's Nuclear Failures

Feature story | February 2, 2009 at 0:00

Hazardous waste, illegitimate and dangerous new reactors and a diversion to the solutions to climate change - here's why France's picture of nuclear energy is just a 'great illusion'.

Radioactive Champagne in our future?

Feature story | May 30, 2006 at 0:00

Ahhh, a fine Champagne. A delicate nose. Full body. Great colour. And that indescribable sensation when you raise your glass of having your tongue tickled by .... TRITIUM???

Nuclear power is a disease, but industry's incompetence is a cure

Blog entry by Justin McKeating | December 11, 2012 3 comments

I’m not the kind of person who enjoys being the bearer of bad news. There are exceptions, however, and nuclear power is a big one. So I’m trying not to smile too widely at the latest horrendous news for the nuclear industry. We’ve...

Message to the UK: be afraid, be very afraid

Blog entry by Justin | January 20, 2009

Denying yesterday’s news that they were about to adopt ‘modular’ construction techniques for their nuclear reactors, EDF said in a statement : ‘EDF is proposing to use the same construction method for EPRs in the UK as it is using...

Japanese and French companies to build Turkey’s nuclear reactors: What could go wrong?

Blog entry by Justin McKeating | May 4, 2013 1 comment

Look at what we have here: A $22 billion dollar deal for a Japanese-French consortium to build Turkey’s second nuclear power plant. What could possibly go wrong? Let’s see, shall we? The French company contracted to help...

Olkiluoto 3 and Flamanville in Private Eye

Blog entry by Justin | September 5, 2008

The UK has a famous satire and investigative journalism magazine called Private Eye . In the current edition, it has the following to say about the construction of the EPR reactors at Olkiluoto in Finland and Flamanville in France:

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