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Science Current Events: Nuclear Explosion France Sept. 2011

France nuclear: Marcoule site explosion kills one 

 BBC Europe 

Written on 12th of September 2011 

On the 12th of September 2011 a blast at the Marcoule Nuclear Site in France, killed one worker and seriously injured another. Officials said that the worker who died was killed from the initial blast not from radiation. The explosion was caused by a fire that started in a nuclear waste storage site. The fire started by a furnace in the nuclear waste storage site. According to the interior ministry spokesman there was no radiation leak of any kind. 

The author of this article decided not to put his opinion into his article. I think the author was trying to be respectful to everyone's opinions. I chose this article because nuclear energy is a very controversial argument. Many people disagree with having nuclear energy and think that we should shut down all nuclear power plants as soon and as safely possible. They think we should find a safer alternative energy. I found this article very interesting because there have been many nuclear explosions over the past few years and yet we are building more and more plants. I believe we should find an alternative energy that is safer and is not radioactive and/or very explosive. Nuclear energy started in the 1950's and since then we have been using it to supply our homes with energy. We have been building more and more nuclear power plants over the years and the more we build the more likely we are to have more accidents that end up killing innocent workers and civilians. This article reinforced my opinion about banning nuclear energy. I checked for validity of this BBC article and it is valid because CNN wrote a very similar article and both are major news corporations. 

  

Bibliography: 

 BBC Article: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-14883521

CNN Article: http://articles.cnn.com/2011-09-12/world/france.nuclear_1_nuclear-waste-nuclear-site-nuclear-facilities?_s=PM:WORLD