The Marseille prosecution has retained twelve chiefs including those of “endangering others” and “non-declaration of incidents or accidents” with “risk of security damage”.
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The bad news accumulates for EDF, already faced with cascade stops of its reactors. According to information from the world, confirmed from a judicial source, the prosecutor of the Republic of Marseille opened a judicial investigation in early May. It follows the complaint filed in October 2021 by a former member of the management of the nuclear power plant of the nuclear power plant Tricastin (Drôme) denouncing a “concealment policy” of incidents and differences in safety. The complaint was aimed at EDF and the tricastin management of “endangering the life of others”, “offenses to the penal code, environmental code, labor code and regulations relating to nuclear installations” and “harassment”.
If the complaint was filed before the Paris judicial court, it was that of Marseille which finally obtained the file, in particular because the central of the Tricastin, one of the oldest in France, is located in its area of geographic competence. The survey was entrusted to the public health center. The latter has already heard EDF’s ex -framework, who wishes to keep anonymous – calls himself Hugo – and requests the launcher status.
The Marseille prosecutor has retained twelve chiefs, whose endangerment of others by legal person “with immediate risk of death or infirmity by manifestly deliberate violation” of a regulatory obligation of security or prudence. Also are the heads of “non-declaration of incidents or accidents” by the operator of a nuclear installation with risk of damage to security or significant exposure to ionizing radiation and “non-declaration to the ‘Nuclear security authority of significant event “. All the offenses referred to concerns facts between the 1 er January 2017 and December 31, 2021 at the Tricastin power station, located in the town of Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux.
“Moral harassment”
Hugo, who had been appointed within the management of the Tricastin power plant at the end of 2016, described in his complaint many security and security gaps that would have been overlooked by EDF or declared with delay to the authority of nuclear safety (ASN). The most impressive is undoubtedly the leak occurred in one of the power plants of the power station in the summer of 2018: the agents had to deal with the most in a hurry by using simple raclettes and a vacuum cleaner borrowed from a cleaning provider for Try to absorb the flood. The complainant ensures that this incident was minimized when declaring the nuclear gendarme.
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