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To: cirrus who wrote (160115)	2/9/2009 12:42:58 AM
From: Travis_Bickle	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 362349

France and nuclear waste msnbc.msn.com They can bury it in my back yard for $5,000 a year, I don't expect to live forever anyway. Much more likely to get run over by a truck this morning than to be killed by nuclear waste.

To: cirrus who wrote (160115)	2/9/2009 9:04:28 AM
From: Wharf Rat	Respond to of 362349

Better ya shouldn't have axed... Plan A ENVIRONMENT: France's Nuclear Waste Heads to Russia By Julio Godoy* PARIS, Dec 17 (Tierramérica) - France sends thousands of tonnes of nuclear waste to Russia each year, but the details are shielded by a decree of "national security" in order to block debate on the issue, says the environmental watchdog group Greenpeace. ipsnews.net Plan B France’s Radioactive Waste Management Program Low-level radioactive waste From 1969 to 1994, the Manche Disposal Facility was the country’s first short-lived, low-, and medium-level radioactive waste disposal site. In 1992, the Centre de l’Aube Disposal Facility began accepting low-level radioactive waste produced by power plants, research, industry, and medicine. Centre de l’Aube is currently France’s site for low-level radioactive waste disposal. Spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste Spent nuclear fuel is kept for one year on site in specially constructed storage pools. Following storage, spent nuclear fuel is transported to the La Hague and Marcoule reprocessing plants and stored in pools for two to three years. Reprocessing spent nuclear fuel France reprocesses its own spent nuclear fuel. Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and Japan also send, or have sent in the past, spent nuclear fuel to France for reprocessing. High-level reprocessed waste is vitrified (solidified) and stored at La Hague for several decades, where it awaits final geologic disposal. Transporting radioactive waste France has more than 30 years of experience transporting radioactive waste. Spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste are shipped by rail within France; trucks carry the materials over short distances. Five ships transport the material intercoastally. Spent nuclear fuel arrives at La Hague by train in specially designed rail cars, which are admitted without restriction into normal railway traffic. Deep geologic disposal plans A research program to study high-level radioactive waste disposal began with legislation enacted in 1991. The French Waste Management Research Act of December 1991 authorized 15-year studies of three management options for high-level or long half-life radioactive waste. They included separation and/or transmutation, long-term storage, and geologic disposal. One site under consideration for deep geologic disposal in clay is currently being studied. The French are also searching for a granite site to research. ocrwm.doe.gov Plan C Normandy Aquifer Seven Times More Radioactive Than French Limit PARIS, France, May 29, 2006 (ENS) - Radioactive tritium from a nuclear waste storage facility in Normandy, France is leaking into groundwater that is being used by local farmers for their dairy cattle, according to a new report published by the French laboratory ACRO. Contamination from the low and intermediate level nuclear waste disposal facility at la Hague, the Centre Stockage de la Manche (CSM), migrates from the dumpsite into the underground aquifers used by farmers, the Hérouville St Clair-based laboratory found. ens-newswire.com