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French nuclear reprocessing-Failure at home, Coup d'etat in the USA

Auteur	Shaun Burnie
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Datum	mei 2007
Classificatie	2.02.8.10/19 (FRANKRIJK - LA HAGUE - ALGEMEEN)
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FRENCH NUCLEAR REPROCESSING –
FAILURE AT HOME, COUP d’ETAT IN THE UNITED STATES
Shaun Burnie
May 2007

If the state-funded corporations AREVA/Cogema and Electricite de France (EDF) were 
to be believed France is basking in a nuclear powered paradise with none of the 
nuclear waste problems confronting nations such as the United States. Their chosen 
"solution" to managing nuclear reactor spent fuel is reprocessing. But far from 
solving their problem - they have created one of the worlds largest and most 
complex nuclear waste problems, the management of which they continue to struggle 
with, and for which unknown and unallocated billions of Euros will be required.

French policy on reprocessing is a legacy of decisions taken during the 1950s-1970s.
Those decisions were based upon in the first instance a need for a plutonium 
stockpile for nuclear weapons development, and later the expected demand that 
large amounts of the nuclear material would be required to fuel a generation of 
Fast Breeder Reactors.
In 2007, France no longer produces plutonium for military use, and its only 
commercial Fast Breeder Reactor has been closed ten years (1997) - but reprocessing 
continues. This analysis summarizes the current state of French policy and its
consequences.

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