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Re:Germany Is Burning Too Much Coal by kuschku on Tuesday November 14, 2017 @05:16PM (#15699710)
You might not know it, but by international treaties, Germany is banned from operating or having fuel reprocessing facilities.

As result, it either has to be reprocessed expensively in France, or stored directly.

> Also, in a global market there is no reason why any of that stuff has to be in your country.

You do know how prohibitively expensive transport is, and how many legal requirements there are (to avoid hijacking by some rogue nation)?

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Re:Germany Is Burning Too Much Coal by germanier on Wednesday November 15, 2017 @03:18AM (#15702246)
Are you sure this is actually true? What would the name of those treaties be?

There is a (unilateral) German law against such facilities and (regular private law) contracts to use the British and French ones.

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Re:Germany Is Burning Too Much Coal by lispm on Thursday November 16, 2017 @05:53AM (#15711701)
I don't think this is true. Germany actually was trying to build a Reprocessing Plant, against massive protest, it was given up:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_reprocessing_plant_Wac...

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