France nuclear: Marcoule site explosion kills one

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LONDON. September 12. KAZINFORM One person has been killed and four injured, one seriously, in a blast at the Marcoule nuclear site in France.

According to BBC News, there was no risk of a radioactive leak after the blast, caused by a fire near a furnace in the Centraco radioactive waste storage site, said officials.

The plant's owner, national electricity provider EDF, said it had been "an industrial accident, not a nuclear accident", which was under control.

There are no nuclear reactors at the southern French site.

The explosion hit the area at 11:45 local time (09:45 GMT). A security cordon was set up as a precaution.

Interior ministry spokesman Pierre-Henry Brandet later said there had been no leak of radiation, neither inside nor outside the plant.

The Centraco treatment centre belongs to a subsidiary of EDF. It produces MOX fuel, which recycles plutonium from nuclear weapons.

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