The competition is on for Eastern Europe’s #nuclear power market 🇨🇿 🇭🇺 🇪🇺 🇵🇱 🇦🇩

https://www.sustainability-times.com/low-carbon-energy/the-competition-is-on-for-eastern-europes-nuclear-power-market/

@kravietz

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

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cig%C3%A9o

@boud

> 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

@kravietz

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).

@boud

Regarding the waste, there are two reasons why new storage is introduced so slowly: political and economical. Political - people are misinformed by Greenpeace and protest. Economical - the amount of waste is so tiny now that it's not economically viable to build expensive underground storage. Yet.