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The long-term risks and costs of civilian nuclear power are too high.
France has the most nuclearised electricity:
* The cost of managing closed-down civilian nuclear reactors is huge: they produce no electricity but remain radioactive and must be permanently protected from tourists, thieves and terrorists.
* The plan of how to treat the most dangerous radioactive waste is still very uncertain; it *might* start at #Cigéo in 2025:
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gestion_des_d%C3%A9chets_radioactifs_en_France
> The plan of how to treat the most dangerous radioactive waste
Someone lied to you. Spent fuel has been not only treated by actually *recycled* for years in Orano la Hauge. This is truly fascinating process and worth watching how it's done:
https://scitech.video/videos/watch/53184e23-6490-4158-a616-68af6afc0925
Clarification: "the most dangerous" was an abbreviation for « Déchets MA-VL » 45000 m^3 + « Déchets HA » 3650 m^3 in https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gestion_des_d%C3%A9chets_radioactifs_en_France. 90500 m^3 of FA-VL is not yet stored.
Lower emission waste is already stored.
A *tiny* fraction (1172 tonnes/yr , 2013) is recycled at:
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usine_de_retraitement_de_la_Hague
As for the full life cycle:
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Démantèlement_nucléaire
Very few FR politicians want to take proper responsibility for handling the full life cycle (waste + dismantling old reactors).
Because, again, this is engineering challenge that has been misrepresented by "environmental" activists.
In Germany there are actually already TWO deep ACTIVE geologic repositories - Herfa-Neurode and Zielitz.
There have been zero protests or controversies around them. Why? Because they "only" store highly toxic waste like arsenic, mercury, cyanides. But not nuclear.
Main difference? Nuclear will be 7% toxic after 100 years, the others remain 100..
https://www.kpluss.com/en-us/our-business-products/waste-management/underground-disposal/
