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Re:EU experts to say nuclear power qualifies for green inves... by Klinky on Saturday March 27, 2021 @03:40PM (#26604937)
La Hague dumps radioactive waste liquids into the North Sea. Reactors currently cannot run 100% on MOX. Separation of Plutonium in the recycling process has proliferation concerns. Other countries have found building similar recycling plants challenging due to cost, with DoE estimating $50+ billion. La Hague was initially designed to extract Plutonium for weapons use, which likely justified its costs at the time.

The Marcoule site where MOX fuel is manufactured had an explosion in 2011, which did result in a fatality.

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Re:EU experts to say nuclear power qualifies for green inves... by webreac on Saturday March 27, 2021 @04:27PM (#26605346)
La Hague used to dump small quantities of radioactive liquid (mainly water used to clean barrels that contained weakly radioactiv waste) in Nort Sea. When I left (in 1999), the project to completely stop this dump was well advanced. The idea was to vaporized the water and collect the remains in a barrel.

You are right that we have a lot of plutonium that we can not use. The intent of superphenix was to use this plutonium. It failed.

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Re:EU experts to say nuclear power qualifies for green inves... by p_l on Saturday March 27, 2021 @09:06PM (#26607151)
Apparently it burned quite a lot of it, though?

Pity that it got closed, I hope technical issues are fixed and a new device based on better understanding replaces it.

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Re:EU experts to say nuclear power qualifies for green inves... by pyrale on Saturday March 27, 2021 @06:39PM (#26606242)
> La Hague dumps radioactive waste liquids into the North Sea.

That would be a long pipeline, because La Hague is facing the channel, not the north sea.

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Re:EU experts to say nuclear power qualifies for green inves... by Klinky on Saturday March 27, 2021 @08:04PM (#26606822)
Sorry, it flows from the channel into the North Sea.
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Re:EU experts to say nuclear power qualifies for green inves... by pyrale on Saturday March 27, 2021 @08:39PM (#26607033)
The Hague is closer to the Irish sea, and currents at that location tend to push to the atlantic rather than into the North sea.
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Re:EU experts to say nuclear power qualifies for green inves... by Klinky on Saturday March 27, 2021 @10:46PM (#26607508)
Scientific studies show its pollution reaches the North Sea. Simple current maps show current flows through the channel into the North Sea. However, thank you for highlighting it also pollutes the Irish Sea, channel and Atlantic.
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Re:EU experts to say nuclear power qualifies for green inves... by pyrale on Sunday March 28, 2021 @05:41AM (#26609072)
Interesting. Do you have a link to the study ?
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