Chernobyl and... Pierre?

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I wasn't aware that the Chernobyl disaster had much of an impact on France.

A new expert report on the radioactive cloud from the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster over France suggests radioactivity measurements were sometimes much higher than at first suggested, a source close to the case said Saturday.

I'm not even sure what to make of this. France is what, a thousand, two thousand miles from Chernobyl? If I've got information saying that there wasn't much radiation over France after the Chernobyl explosion, I'm going to tend to believe it.

Why am I not surprised that, when given good news, the French decide that it should have been worse?