Newsletter N° 6/7 (Transport Special)

    The table gives the contamination levels per measuring point exceeding the regulatory limit of a given rail car coming into Valognes (transfer station rail/road) from German nuclear power plants, in the period between February 1997 and February 1998. The figures prove that high levels of between 500 and 3,300 times the legal limit were found on a significant proportion of the 17 measuring points. Although the highest contamination, of 13,400 Bq, was on a spot "the size of a coin", larger surfaces (the entire measuring surface of 300cm2) have been found contaminated up to 13,000 Bq/cm2. The table also shows that the industry was far from containing the problem; on the contrary, there is strong evidence to suggest that the situation had become continually worse over the last two years.

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