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In reply to the discussion: Former EPA leader: ‘Irresponsible’ for US to halt nuclear power [View all]bananas
(27,509 posts)12. That's one of the stupidest things I've ever read.
France is reducing nuclear to 50% of their electricity, from about 75%.
France has less waste because they have fewer reactors - the US has around 100, France has around 50 to 60.
Reprocessing is more expensive, more difficult to handle, and more dangerous than once-through.
Reprocessing actually increases the total waste volume - and it doesn't solve the problem of high-level waste storage at all.
France reprocesses some of it's waste for two reasons:
- to extract plutonium for nuclear weapons
- to extract plutonium for breeder reactors
Their breeder reactor projects failed miserably, and the international consensus for banning nuclear weapons is growing.
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Fukushima has not only killed starfish but irradiated dolphins in the Atlantic.
zappaman
Oct 2014
#1
I know that you and reality had a messy divorce due to irreconcilable differences...
FBaggins
Oct 2014
#24
And you still think that's somehow connected to demon cores at Fukushima, right?
FBaggins
Oct 2014
#25