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 radioactiv
e waste (leaving a pleasant impression
) without describing what "reprocess
ing" (the real name of the process) means.
In France, it means pumping 100 million gallons of liquid radioactiv
e waste into the sea every year -- wastes that have been detected as far as the Arctic Circle. It means releasing radioactiv
e 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 reprocessi
ng 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 contaminat
ed 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 radioactiv
e still, with uranium tailings used in public parking lots, buildings and school playground
s.
Each year more French want renewables rather than nuclear power. There is a network of more than 852 anti-nucle
ar groups in France. The French nuclear system is undemocrat
ic and highly secret.
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