Radioactive Champagne could be fruit of nuclear energy

Protests about radioactivity getting into wine have stopped a planned nuclear waste dump in the Rhone region

Radioactive waste from a storage site at Soulaine in eastern France, where containment problems were reported in recent weeks, could end up in grapes used to make champagne as it penetrates into groundwater, the environmental group said. Water leakage had caused fissures in the site’s storage cells, French nuclear safety agency DGSNR said last month

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