French Nuclear Problems


	French Nuclear Problems

deb2012

6-18-2008 6:48 AM

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Is France really the nuclear success story the nuclear boosters would have you believe?

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/76096b5d-e7c4-4813-a757-513762d8a78f/E096A6A9-2B52-4D30-8BA3-F7425A7F78F6/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.beyondnuclear.org/FranceNuclearMyths.html" href="http://www.beyondnuclear.org/FranceNuclearMyths.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.beyondnuclear.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.beyondnuclear.org/FranceNuclearMyths.html">France gets nearly 80% of its electricity from its 58 reactors.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.beyondnuclear.org/FranceNuclearMyths.html"><P>In our <A href="http://www.beyondnuclear.org/files/beyondnuclear/Nuclear_France_Fact_Sheet_FINAL%5B1%5D.pdf">fact sheet </A>and <A href="http://www.beyondnuclear.org/files/beyondnuclear/French%20brochure%20May%2008.pdf">pamphlet,</A> (and see For More Information, below) we show how France's decision to reprocess reactor fiuel has contaminated the seas as far as the Artic Circle and may have led to leukemia clusters near the reprocessing plant. Its decision to try breeder reactors was an expensive failure. Its plutonium fuel program has not reduced its surplus stockpile of plutonium which is calculated at greater than 80 metric tons sitting in tens of thousands of vulnerable containers and with no disposal option. France has no radioactive waste repository.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.beyondnuclear.org/FranceNuclearMyths.html">MOX introduces a weapons component – plutonium – into the civilian power sector, 
a dangerous precedent</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.beyondnuclear.org/FranceNuclearMyths.html">Read our pamphlet on <A 
href="http://www.beyondnuclear.org/files/beyondnuclear/French%20brochure%20May%2008.pdf">Nuclear Power in 
France. </A></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.beyondnuclear.org/FranceNuclearMyths.html"><A href="http://www.beyondnuclear.org/files/beyondnuclear/Nuclear_France_Fact_Sheet_FINAL%5B1%5D.pdf"> Fact 
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href="http://www.beyondnuclear.org/files/beyondnuclear/The%20Cogema%20File.pdf">The 
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