Bomb alert at French nuclear plant was a hoax-EDF

PARIS, April 30 (Reuters) - A bomb alert at a French nuclear power station proved a hoax and no explosives were found, power supplier EDF (EDF.PA) said after checking the entire site. EDF evacuated the Chinon plant after an anonymous phonecall was made at dawn from a nearby phonebox.

"The controls carried out today ... have just ended and showed that the Chinon nuclear production site was totally secure. No suspect object was found," EDF said in a press release.

The Chinon plant, which has four 900-megawatt nuclear reactors and supplies electricity to around 6 percent of the French population, continued to operate during the searches. (Reporting by Crispian Balmer)