Edit: show to see again here http://programmes.france3.fr/pieces-a-c ... 247-fr.php
PaC's programs and surveys are often of very high quality and often close to investigative reporting!
Two examples:
https://www.econologie.com/forums/pieces-a-c ... t6750.html
https://www.econologie.com/forums/pouvoir-d- ... t6311.html
So inevitably when we stir the shit, it stinks for some ...
Exhibits "the scandal of contaminated France" on February 11 at 20:35 pm on France 3
Controversy around the program "The scandal of contaminated France" on France 3
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Created the 29/01/09 - Last update at 12:35
On February 11, the new issue of the magazine "Pièces à conviction" on France 3 will evoke "the scandal of contaminated France". To defend the thesis that millions of tons of uranium are scattered throughout France. This subject is controversial, the Areva group appealed to the CSA because it considers that the investigation is "unethical".
The Areva group announced Thursday its intention to seize the Superior council of audio-visual about the emission of France 3, "Picèes à conviction". In a press release, Areva, which learned from the press of the content of the proposed reports, considers "to say the least surprising, even unethical, that its point of view is presupposed and made public even before it occurs. is expressed ". The producers of the show, however, have scheduled an interview with the spokesperson for the group, which is to be recorded on Friday and included in the show. Referring to press information, Areva expresses "the feeling that the magazine is already closed, against the Areva group". Lionel de Coninck, editor-in-chief of "Exhibits", assured that it was "in no case to presuppose what will be said in the show". According to him, what was said in the report of Areva's position is "based on what Areva has been saying for decades on the subject".
The subject of the controversy: the program which defends the idea according to which, in all discretion, in our countryside, near villages or cities, extremely dangerous radioactive waste has been disseminated, or methodically buried, for decades. Worse still, they have sometimes been used to build roads, parking lots, and even housing, schools or play areas for children, without any warning about the risks involved. It is this situation that France 3 will evoke in its magazine "Pièces à conviction" on February 11. With an edition entitled "The scandal of contaminated France".
The magazine will open with a report in Gueugnon, in Saône-et-Loire. In the parking lot of a stadium, the radiation detector of a specialist from Criirad (Commission for Research and Independent Information on Radioactivity) crackles all the time. There, over an area of 12 hectares, nearly 225.000 tonnes of radioactive waste were scattered over land open to all comers. Ironically, this land has even hosted a "fitness trail". Gueugnon is "the very last city to have discovered that it was concerned by this problem of radioactive waste", according to Elise Lucet, presenter of the magazine.
In total, according to the magazine's investigators, between 1945 and 2001 more than 300 million tonnes of radioactive waste, residue from the 210 mines operated in France, were abandoned without any special protection or surveillance measure. The survey also reports close links between those officially responsible for measuring radioactivity in nature and former polluters. Negligence or real "omerta" of the public authorities? A radioactive stone in hand as an argument, Elise Lucet proposes to ask for explanations from Jean-Louis Borloo, Minister of Ecology, who will be questioned separately.
Despite the fact that the French uranium mines have not been in operation for several years, this pollution, whether it involves "waste" ores (too poor in uranium to become nuclear fuel) or other residues of the mining activity can prove to be dangerous in the long term, assure the magazine's investigators. Areva (ex-Cogema) argues the opposite, considering extremely unlikely the hypothesis of prolonged exposure mentioned by the show. Its president, Anne Lauvergeon, did not wish to appear on the show and left it to a spokesperson to respond to Elise Lucet during the debate scheduled on the set. Anne Lauvergeon, on the other hand, will be rewarded with the "Creators Without Borders" trophy for her action in favor of France's influence abroad. Ironic for someone who participates in the internal irradiation of France.
Uranium waste: the alarm cry of "Pieces à conviction" - PARIS -
By hundreds of millions of tons scattered throughout France, uranium waste contaminates the territory in general indifference and neglect: this is the thesis defended by the television magazine "Pièces à conviction".
For its February 11 issue, the news magazine of France 3 evokes "the scandal of France contaminated" by radioactive waste, residues from uranium mines.
A report in Gueugnon, a quiet town in Saône-et-Loire, opens the magazine. In the parking lot of a stadium, the radiation detector of a specialist from Criirad (Commission for Research and Independent Information on Radioactivity) crackles all the time. There, over an area of 12 hectares, nearly 225.000 tonnes of radioactive waste were scattered over land open to all comers, which for a time even hosted a "health trail".
Gueugnon is "the very last city to have discovered that it was concerned by this radioactive waste problem", according to Elise Lucet, presenter of this magazine that France 3 produced in cooperation with the production company Ligne de Mire. The city, which had housed a uranium processing plant, only discovered in March 2007 that it was a victim of this contamination.
The French uranium mines have not been in operation for several years. But this pollution, whether it is "waste rock" (ore too poor in uranium to become nuclear fuel) or other residues of mining activity, can prove dangerous in the long term, assure the investigators of "Exhibits".
Areva (ex-Cogema) contends the opposite, considering it extremely improbable the hypothesis of a prolonged exposure evoked by the show. Its president, Anne Lauvergeon, did not wish to appear on the program and left it to a spokesperson to answer Elise Lucet during the debate scheduled on the set.
In total, according to the magazine's investigators, more than 300 million tonnes of radioactive waste, residue from the 210 mines operated in France, have been abandoned without any special protection or surveillance measure.
The survey also shows close links between those officially responsible for measuring radioactivity in nature and former polluters.
Negligence or real "omerta" of the public authorities?
A radioactive stone in hand as an argument, Elise Lucet intends to ask for explanations from Jean-Louis Borloo, Minister of Ecology, who will be questioned separately.
(© AFP / January 29, 2009 08:23 am)
