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How France Is Disposing Of Its Nuclear Waste

Posted March 04, 2014 12:47 PM

From BBC News - Science & Environment:

Could UK emulate France's approach to nuclear waste?

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Re: How France Is Disposing Of Its Nuclear Waste

03/04/2014 11:21 PM

They, and we, need to investigate fast neutron nuclear reactors. They can use all that "waste" to make electricity, and end up with 100 times less volume with a radioactivity hugely smaller. Examples are the PRISM and IFR reactors.

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