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It's Elementary, My Dear ... Watts On! French downplay years-old uranium leak at nuclear plant		21 Jul 2008	News
Posted at 6:50 AM on 21 Jul 2008 A uranium leak was discovered on Friday in an underground pipe at a nuclear fuel plant in France. Authorities said the leak was probably a few years old, but insisted it really isn't all that bad since groundwater apparently wasn't contaminated and the uranium leak was relatively small. However, the reassurances were not quite as comforting to the public as they might ...
Topics: France, news, nuclear power, toxics (all these topics)

Eiffel and I Can Get Up Greenpeacers climb Eiffel Tower in anti-nuclear protest		14 Jul 2008	News
Posted at 10:33 AM on 14 Jul 2008 About 15 Greenpeace activists scaled the Eiffel Tower Sunday and unveiled a banner to protest France's nuclear-energy policies. France uses more nuclear power than any other E.U. nation. "Since he was elected, President Nicolas Sarkozy has done everything he could to sell nuclear energy," Greenpeace said in a statement. "At the U.N., as head of the European council, or ...
Topics: energy, France, grassroots activism, Greenpeace, news, nuclear power (all these topics)

You Give Hubris a Glad Name Nuclear fusion gets a boost as 31 countries sign reactor agreement		21 Nov 2006	Daily Grist
You Give Hubris a Glad Name Nuclear fusion gets a boost as 31 countries sign reactor agreement After years of debate, 31 countries have agreed to build the $12.8 billion International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor in southern France. (Ah, "experimental reactor" -- was there ever a more comforting phrase?) Deemed "the victory of the general interest of humanity" by French President Jacques Chirac, the fu ...
Topics: France, news, nuclear power (all these topics)

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