French state-controlled utility EDF and nuclear regulator ASN said on Wednesday that an earthquake registering 4.9 on the Richter scale in south-west France had no impact on the Blayais nuclear power plant in the region, reports Reuters.
Environmental group Greenpeace said the plant had still not applied anti-earthquake standards imposed by the French nuclear regulator ASN following the 2011 Fukushima accident and called on EDF to be transparent about the impact of the earthquake on the safety of the plant.
EDF which operates France’s 58 nuclear reactors, said the earthquake had no impact on Blayais, which has four 900 megawatt capacity reactors.
“The power plants are designed to withstand an earthquake twice as big as the most serious earthquake recorded over the last 1,000 years in the regions where they are located,” EDF said on its official twitter account for the plant.
A spokeswoman for ASN said the shock early on Wednesday was much lower than the earthquake level the Blayais nuclear power station was built to withstand.