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When nuclear firefighters practice the worst

2021-01-21T17:13:27.934Z


REPORT - EDF's nuclear rapid action force (Farn), created after the Fukushima disaster, is training to deal with disaster situations.


One after the other, all the lines of defense broke.

Reactor number 4 at the Paluel nuclear power station, on the Normandy coast, has had a series of failures.

Inside the concrete dome, wedged between the chalk cliffs, nothing can cool the uranium bars.

If nothing is done, the reactor core will melt.

Observed through a tinted window by two instructors leading the exercise, a reactor control team attempts to respond to faults from the training control room.

They won't, it's calibrated for.

"We always practice on scenarios where we waste all the time

," explains the director of the Paluel plant, Jean-Marie Boursier.

The aim of the exercise is not to restore the reactor, but to test the reaction capacity of our teams in increasingly difficult situations. ”

Deprived of options, the management team must notify the EDF national crisis center.

Decision is

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Source: lefigaro

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