Saturday
Jul112009
Nuclear Power in France: setting the record straight
Read the newly revised Beyond Nuclear pamphlet - Nuclear Power in France: setting the record straight.
Radioactive Waste - France
The French reliance on nuclear energy has created a mountainous and unsolved radioactive waste problem. One million gallons of liquid radioactive waste is discharged annually into the English Channel. At least 80 metric tons of plutonium are stored in hundreds of vulnerable containers at the La Hague reprocessing site. There is no operating high-level waste repository. And so-called intermediate and low-level radioactive waste dumps are leaking, including in the important Champagne region.
.................................................................................................................................................................................................................
July 11, 2009