French workers in radioactive leak

French electric company EDF said 100 employees have been “slightly contaminated” by a leak at a reactor site in southern France.

It is the third incident at a French nuclear site in recent weeks and the second at the huge Tricastin site.

An EDF spokeswoman says the employees were exposed to radioactive particles that escaped from a pipe in a reactor that had been shut down.

It says the employees were exposed to radiation far below permitted levels, and went home but will still be tested.

A leak of unenriched uranium at another facility at Tricastin led to a just-lifted ban on water sports and fishing in two rivers.