The State was condemned, Thursday, June 2, for “inexcusable fault” in the case of a former worker of DCN – now Naval Group – who fell ill after working for more than thirty years near the nuclear heads of submarines of Ile-Longue, announced theAssociation Henri Pézerat.
“This judgment is of decisive importance in the recognition by the courts of the serious damage suffered by the irradiated workers of Ile-Longue”welcomes, in a statement, the support association for victims.
The Brest court condemned the management of naval construction, 100% owned by the State at the material time. The former electronics engineer at the Ile-Longue base had developed myelodysplasia, a form of leukemia, after being exposed during his professional activity, between 1980 and 2011, to radiation from nuclear warheads.
Increase to its maximum of the pension paid
The old worker “has been exposed without suitable individual or collective protection for around thirty years of professional activity to several carcinogenic agents which have entered into synergy with each other, and in particular neutron radiation. The most dangerous »says the association.
The court ordered the increase to its maximum of the pension paid to the former worker, whose illness was recognized as occupational a year ago, according to the association, which adds that other files are under investigation for recognition in occupational disease.
This is not the first time that the inexcusable fault of the Ministry of the Armed Forces has been recognized by the courts in similar cases concerning former technicians from the nuclear base. This judgment comes on the eve of the entry into service in Brest of the first new generation French nuclear attack submarine (SNA), the Suffrenin the presence of the new Minister of the Armed Forces, Sébastien Lecornu.