FRENCH NUCLEAR POWER STATION AT CHINON STILL FUNCTIONING DURING BOMB SCARE- EDF

[baypond]

10:29 30Apr09 RTRS-BOMB ALERT AT FRENCH NUCLEAR POWER STATION AT CHINON - ELECTRICITY SUPPLIER EDF <EDF.PA>
10:30 30Apr09 RTRS-FRENCH NUCLEAR POWER STATION AT CHINON EVACUATED AFTER PHONE WARNING AT 0355 GMT- EDF
10:33 30Apr09 RTRS-French nuclear power plant evacuated over bomb scare
    PARIS, April 30 (Reuters) - A nuclear power station at
Chinon in central France was evacuated on Thursday after a phone
call warning of a bomb, power supplier said.
   EDF said the anonymous phone call was made at 0355 GMT. It
said searches were ongoing at the station but the core areas of
the plant had been secured.

[powerdesal]

Plant operations staff would remain in place to carry out a controlled shutdown if it was deemed necessary. It would not be normal to just walk out of an operating plant, certainly not a nuclear one. Non-essential staff would be the ones first evacuated.

[Sunday Driver]

Don't you have to have someone yell "Dump the Rods, Kowalski......" - or something scientifically dramatic like that.  I don't think you can just switch those things off at the wall socket......[;-)]

 

 

[BIG MAC]

Profound SD! profound.......read that twice before bursting out laughing

[Iceni]

[quote user="Sunday Driver"]

 I don't think you can just switch those things off at the wall socket......[;-)]

[/quote]

Of course not, French wall sockets don't have switches. Unless it was built by English electricians on the lump? We should be told.

John