France - EDF has been a leak of radioactive reactor coolant, from the Penly Seine-Maritime. The leak has been "collected in tanks provided for this purpose" , the operator announced Thursday. The reactor, which has been shut down after two outbreaks of fire in the building that houses it.

"The reactor continues to be cooled normally and there has been no radiation released into the environment" , said the operator.

This fire, "which is not serious" according to EDF, broke out in a shed in the reactor building No. 2 of the central nuclear . A fire alarm was started at 12:20, due to smoke and the reactor shut down. "There are no injuries and the facilities are safe," said a spokesman for the company.

The president of the local information commission (CLI), Serge Boulanger , said he had been informed earlier this afternoon by EDF. there was a fire at a water pump that was smoking following a failure of the supply of oil, to the pump in the reactor chamber 2 "

A dozen fire trucks have stepped in teams fight against the fire of EDF, already there. These teams have entered the reactor building and extinguished the fire by oil spills, said in the evening the Nuclear Safety Authority (ASN). The regional prefecture, sub-prefecture of Dieppe and CLI were immediately informed of this event.

Source: Le Monde