With the huge success of HBO’s ‘Chernobyl’ some people have been asking what might happen if the huge nuclear power plant just over the water in Normandy ran into trouble. It was not too long ago that Flamanville actually had some issues, which, eerily, were pretty similar to the issues first suspected at Chernobyl – luckily for Guernsey, the emergency was just a fire, unlike at the Russian station in the 80s. While there was no nuclear risk, the fire in February 2017 caused an explosion which took one of the station’s rectors off France’s grid for some time, and caused everyone a bit of a scare, because Guernsey is just 70km away from the site.
Bailiwick Express 5th July 2019 read more »