Explosion At Nuclear Power Plant In France

I live about 4 miles (as the crow flies) from Three Mile Island in Middletown, PA. Back in 1979, I was on the force for about a year and a half. Every Trooper in the area had three long days of none to very little sleep. It was unbelievably hectic. The worse part was trying to keep the media at bay. We even had a few out in the river in boats trying to sneak onto the bank of the island where the reactors are located, so they could get a better scoop. Little did they know that they were going to be arrested for trespassing and interfering with an active investigation. In the early stages of the so-called "event", we didn't know if it was an accident or a terrorist act. I got an education during that episode in my life.
 
Every now and then something pops up on Three Mile Island. I still find the coincidental timing of the movie China Syndrome coming out shortly before too coincidental. I think I remember pictures of Jimmy Carter in rain boots touring the plant. Makes you wonder when the President makes a public tour of the place, one who was involved in the Navy nuclear program. To install "confidence" in the public to divert talk away from other issues? Eh, ancient history at this point.

The initial reports from France were an explosion. What could explode beside actual reactor components with the heat involved. I can see a fire in support structures but an explosion? Hope there no cover up on external threat or physical danger from an accident. There were four injured.
 

A mare's nest.

The explosion followed a conventional fire.

There was no escape of radiation, and in this day an age any such leakage is easily detectable from space.
 
Laurie said:
A mare's nest.

The explosion followed a conventional fire.

There was no escape of radiation, and in this day an age any such leakage is easily detectable from space.
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It wasn't a possible radiation leak rather than with in the same 24 hour period there was an explosion or fire in the Paris Metro.
 
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