Paris - Ten days after the leak of radioactive uranium from a nuclear power plant in southern France, Environment Minister Jean-Louis Borloo said he wants all of France's reactors and the surrounding groundwater to be inspected.

In an interview published in the daily Le Parisien on Thursday, Borloo said that he wanted to examine "the radio-ecologic situation of all of the nuclear sites and... especially the groundwater situated near every French nuclear power plant."

On July 7, some 75 kilograms of radioactive uranium leaked out of the Tricastin nuclear power plant and into two small nearby rivers.

There are currently 59 nuclear power plants in France, and they generate about 78 per cent of the country's electricity. (dpa)