At the time of Chernobyl, Pierre Pellerin said what was true - that the Chernobyl cloud was passing over France and was clearly detected - and what his professional judgment was - levels were too low to be a threat and justify public action.

One thing is that his judgment was debatable and Pellerin was problably treating bio-concentration too lightly.

The other thing is that Mamère, who was the chief editor and main anchor of the midday news on Antenne 2, spun Pellerin's words and reported flat-out that government was denying that the Chernobyl cloud was passing over France.

The two, Mamère and France 2, were condemned for defamation in 2001, 2002, 2003 until the European Court of Human Rights decided that lying was a human right in 2006.

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There is a leukemia cluster controversy for that site too, in 1997 measurements at a wastewater pipe exit showed radiation levels up to 500 times above background, from not only liquid waste but solid in grains up to twice the permitted diametre, there was controversy about excessive inert gas and increasing iodine release in the air, more recently similar measurements of groundwater contradicted official reports.

Whose measurements? That CRIRAD joke? Controversy? Sure. There's a controversy between evolution and biblical creationism where I live. So what's the point?

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Also worth to point out that while the French authorities referred to international limits still above the values measured at that pipe, the pipe's contamination was above levels where in Germany they would be considered waste to be disposed of in concrete.

And don't worry, it's treated as waste and it shows up in the ANDRA inventory. La Hague, item 6b

Nature des déchets :Concrétions issues du nettoyage de la conduite de rejet (34,7 m3)
Radio-nucléides : PF PA
Classe : FMA-VC

There again my point. The supposed "secrecy" is a myth.