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A close shave in 1999 with a flood at France’s Blayais nuclear power plant

 “Sensitive affairs”. “Tcherno-Blaye”: the scenario of a French Chernobyl?
What happened at the end of December 1999, during the “storm of the
century”, at the Blayais nuclear power plant in Gironde? Incident under
control or disaster scenario narrowly avoided? That evening, in any case,
one of the jewels of the French nuclear fleet found itself … with its
feet in the water. A flood that could have led to the worst: the meltdown
of a reactor, with its dramatic consequences .

 France Info TV 1st Nov 2021

https://www.francetvinfo.fr/replay-magazine/france-2/affaires-sensibles/affaires-sensibles-du-lundi-1-novembre-2021_4805545.html

November 4, 2021 - Posted by | France, incidents

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