US wartime bomb defused near french nuclear power station

["Sandy Perle" <sandyfl@earthlink.net>]

At least they didn't attempt to make some connection between the 
bomb and the nuclear plant being capable of blowing up like a 
bomb. 

CHINON, France, July 29 (AFP) - A US World War II bomb 
unearthed  near the Chinon nuclear power station in western 
France was blown up on Wednesday. The 200-kilogram bomb was 
dug up Tuesday by a mechanical digger  during work at the site, 
belonging to the state-owned EDF electricity utility. Bomb disposal 
experts exploded the one-metre-long (three-foot)  bomb in the Loire 
river. 


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