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France’s oldest nuclear power plant, shut in 1985, still highly radioactive

 “You can’t see radioactivity, you can’t feel it, so people don’t care”: in Brennilis, nuclear power is no longer operating. Shutdown in 1985, the monts d’Arrée power plant was the first in France to begin dismantling.
The reactor block of the Finistère nuclear power plant in Brennilis remains one of the last vestiges of the gigantic installation, in operation from 1967 to 1985. Despite the decades, its dismantling has not yet been completed. It is in this building, however, that the most radioactive elements of the infrastructure are stored, a prototype of a heavy water reactor cooled with carbon dioxide, never reproduced in France afterwards.

 Le Monde 28th Dec 2021

https://www.lemonde.fr/m-le-mag/article/2021/12/28/la-radioactivite-ca-ne-se-voit-pas-ca-ne-se-sent-pas-donc-les-gens-s-en-fichent-a-brennilis-le-nucleaire-ne-mobilise-plus_6107467_4500055.html

December 30, 2021 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | decommission reactor, France