Moselle. Exercise at the Cattenom power plant: the Nuclear Action Force deployed after an earthquake

The immense chimneys belch their clouds of steam into the morning mist. This Wednesday, September 10, the sky is low, the atmosphere post-apocalyptic. This is precisely what has been happening at the Cattenom nuclear power plant since Monday. The Nuclear Rapid Action Force (FARN) arrived at the site after a major earthquake damaged the facilities. This is an exercise, but the deployment of resources is very real.

Unit number 4, the cooling system of the pool where the uranium is stored is no longer functioning. FARN is unrolling hundreds of meters of pipes to draw water from the neighboring pond, pass it through an exchanger, and take over. Unit number 1, the earthquake cracked the water reservoir. Water must be drawn from the neighboring retention basins. "The flow rate is 300 m3 per hour, it's as if you were filling a municipal swimming pool in...

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