France, another incident at the Tricastin nuclear power plant (250 km from Turin). The authorities: "No contamination outside the site"
www.ilfattoquotidiano.it December 29, 2021 just to not forget
Yet another setback for French nuclear plants. An incident at the Tricastin facility, one of the country’s 'older' plants, occurred at the end of November but details have only recently emerged. It led to tritium contamination, a radioactive isotope of hydrogen, in the groundwater of the electricity generation unit. The nuclear safety authority (Asn) assured that the leak was contained and that no contamination was detected in the groundwater outside the site, but the public operator Électricité de France (Edf), reporting the incident, referred to it as a “significant event.” After an inspection, Asn confirmed: “About 900 liters of tritium-containing effluents penetrated the ground between November 25 and December 8, 2021.” This event occurred during the shutdown of four nuclear reactors closed due to a defect detected in a pipe. For safety reasons, all plants of the same type were halted, two in Civaux and two in Chooz, near the Belgian border. This decision led to a drop in Électricité de France’s stock price.
And while Paris lost one terawatt-hour of electricity in a year, amidst an energy crisis, November was the month of doubts. First, with the news published by Le Monde about a lawsuit filed by a former manager of the Tricastin plant who allegedly reported a “policy of concealment” regarding incidents and safety deviations, and then with revelations provided to the French NGO, Criirad, by a whistleblower working in the nuclear industry who spoke of a design flaw concerning all EPR reactors (European Pressurized Reactor) in light of the June incident at the Taishan 1 nuclear power plant in China.
The incident – The latest setback, the incident at the Tricastin plant in Drôme, where four pressurized water reactors (PWR) of 915 MW each are operational. Liquid radioactive effluents are transferred into several storage tanks, which are filled one at a time. On November 25, something went wrong. One of the tanks did not have sufficient free volume to contain the transferred effluents, which overflowed into a recovery pit. While operators began to direct the liquids to another tank, the pit continued to fill beyond its capacity, causing some effluents to end up in rainwater collection gutters not designed to be watertight. On December 8, 2021, after heavy rain, the gutters were emptied, returning the effluents to the recovery pit, but while...
www.ilfattoquotidiano.it December 29, 2021 just to not forget
Yet another setback for French nuclear plants. An incident at the Tricastin facility, one of the country’s 'older' plants, occurred at the end of November but details have only recently emerged. It led to tritium contamination, a radioactive isotope of hydrogen, in the groundwater of the electricity generation unit. The nuclear safety authority (Asn) assured that the leak was contained and that no contamination was detected in the groundwater outside the site, but the public operator Électricité de France (Edf), reporting the incident, referred to it as a “significant event.” After an inspection, Asn confirmed: “About 900 liters of tritium-containing effluents penetrated the ground between November 25 and December 8, 2021.” This event occurred during the shutdown of four nuclear reactors closed due to a defect detected in a pipe. For safety reasons, all plants of the same type were halted, two in Civaux and two in Chooz, near the Belgian border. This decision led to a drop in Électricité de France’s stock price.
And while Paris lost one terawatt-hour of electricity in a year, amidst an energy crisis, November was the month of doubts. First, with the news published by Le Monde about a lawsuit filed by a former manager of the Tricastin plant who allegedly reported a “policy of concealment” regarding incidents and safety deviations, and then with revelations provided to the French NGO, Criirad, by a whistleblower working in the nuclear industry who spoke of a design flaw concerning all EPR reactors (European Pressurized Reactor) in light of the June incident at the Taishan 1 nuclear power plant in China.
The incident – The latest setback, the incident at the Tricastin plant in Drôme, where four pressurized water reactors (PWR) of 915 MW each are operational. Liquid radioactive effluents are transferred into several storage tanks, which are filled one at a time. On November 25, something went wrong. One of the tanks did not have sufficient free volume to contain the transferred effluents, which overflowed into a recovery pit. While operators began to direct the liquids to another tank, the pit continued to fill beyond its capacity, causing some effluents to end up in rainwater collection gutters not designed to be watertight. On December 8, 2021, after heavy rain, the gutters were emptied, returning the effluents to the recovery pit, but while...
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