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The truth about the French's nuclear "success", and the line that France "recycles" its nuclear waste:

It's easy to say that France "recycles" its radioactiv­e waste (leaving a pleasant impression­) without describing what "reprocess­ing" (the real name of the process) means. 

In France, it means pumping 100 million gallons of liquid radioactiv­e waste into the sea every year -- wastes that have been detected as far as the Arctic Circle. It means releasing radioactiv­e gases like krypton-85 into the air -- found all over the globe. 

It means two medical studies finding leukemia clusters along the coast near the La Hague reprocessi­ng plant. It means an 80-ton surplus pile of plutonium with nowhere to go sitting in thousands of containers on site. It means large amounts of uranium too contaminat­ed to "recycle."

The French "success" is compounded by the presence of 210 abandoned uranium mines around the country (France must import all its uranium) which have been found to be highly radioactiv­e still, with uranium tailings used in public parking lots, buildings and school playground­s.

Each year more French want renewables rather than nuclear power. There is a network of more than 852 anti-nucle­ar groups in France. The French nuclear system is undemocrat­ic and highly secret.
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