A PIPE discharging radioactive waste into the sea from France’s La Hague
reprocessing plant has been exposed by low tides twice in the past five weeks.
The pipe is on a public beach, and environmentalists claim that it is releasing
radiation at up to 3500 times normal background levels.
After 20 metres of pipe were exposed on 12 March, La Hague’s director Patrick
Ledermann suggested it would not happen again for at least 15 years. But on 8
April two metres of the pipe surfaced again.
Ledermann told Â鶹´«Ã½ that there was “no health impact” from
the pipeline.
