THE discovery of high levels of radioactivity around an effluent pipe at the
French nuclear reprocessing plant at Cap La Hague has prompted the country’s
environment minister, Dominique Voynet, to ban pleasure boating, fishing and
swimming there. The contamination was first detected by the environmental group
Greenpeace during a low tide in March. The government’s Office for Protection
against Ionising Radiation has carried out its own sampling and will publish the
results this week.
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