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responsibility, as it suffered an
incident in 1986 that was covered up. [ 2 ] [ 3 ]
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Reprocessing plant COGEMA La Hague, in France
The reprocessing plant COGEMA La Hague, in Normandy, was
built in 1966. It is an ideal environment in which to conduct
research on leaf bugs. The plant is built on top of a flat
hill near in the center of a peninsula, and there is no
industry in the region, only farming. The plant is enormous — three
kilometers long. It emits radioactive particles out of
several chimneys, and a five-kilometer-long tube reaching
from the plant into the sea releases 1.4 million liters
of radioactive wastewater per year into the sea. Many people
in the area, mostly children, are ill because their mothers
went swimming at local beaches while they were pregnant.
The rate of
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Picture:
Tree bug larva from Anse St. Martin
near the nuclear reprocessing plant La Hague
Right pair of wings is disturbed
Watercolor, St. Martin 1999
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