A former electronics engineer of the Ile-Longue had developed a myelodysplasia, a form of leukemia, after being exposed during its professional activity, between 1980 and 2011, to the radiation of the nuclear heads of submarines.
Le Monde with AFP
The State was sentenced, Thursday, June 2, for “inexcusable fault” in the case of a former DCN worker – now naval group – fell ill after having worked for more than thirty years near the nuclear heads of the nuclear heads Submarines of Ile-Longue, announced the Henri Pézerat association .
“This judgment is of decisive importance in the recognition by justice of the serious damages suffered by the irradiated workers of Ile-Longue”, welcomes, in a press release, the association of support for victims.
The Brest judicial court sentenced the Naval Constructions Directorate, 100 % owned by the State at the time of the facts. The former electronics engineer of the Ile-Longue had developed a myelodysplasia, a form of leukemia, after being exposed during his professional activity, between 1980 and 2011, with nuclear heads.
Increase to its maximum of the pension paid
The old worker “was exposed without personal or collective protection adapted during around thirty years of professional activity to several carcinogenic agents entered in synergy with each other, and in particular neutron radiation. The most dangerous” , says the association.
The court ordered the increase to its maximum of the annuity paid to the former worker, whose disease was recognized as professional a year ago, according to the association, which adds that other files are in instruction For recognition in occupational disease.
This is not the first time that the inexcusable fault of the Ministry of the Armed Forces has been recognized by justice in similar files concerning former technicians of the nuclear base. This judgment comes on the eve of the entry into service in Brest in the first new generation French attack nuclear submarine (SNA), the Suffren, in the presence of the new Minister of the Armed Forces, Sébastien Lecornu.