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0 pointsCameronNemo4y ago0 comments

Both recycling fuel and breeder reactors have side effects that could be used for proliferation.

France is one of the few countries that do recycle spent fuel. https://www.iaea.org/newscenter/news/frances-efficiency-in-t...

France is a nuclear capable country, so the proliferation risk is fairly low from what I understand. They could even sell the plants abroad and bring the waste back to France to be recycled.

Germany is not a nuclear capable country, and I am not sure how they feel about France being their primary source of energy (or enriched uranium, if they have their own plants). Hopefully they prefer French nuclear energy to Russian oil and gas.

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kazen444y ago

> Germany is not a nuclear capable country, and I am not sure how they feel about France being their primary source of energy (or enriched uranium, if they have their own plants). Hopefully they prefer French nuclear energy to Russian oil and gas.

Considering europe has a harmonized energy market[0][1], does that really matter?

France, germany and the benelux are so tightly economically integrated anyways, that doing harm to one would result in massive chaos in the others.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Network_of_Transmissi... [1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internal_Market_in_Electricity...

webreac4y ago

France recycle spent fuel for whole Europe. In order to reuse a part of plutonium, most of the plant consume a mix of uranium and plutonium: mox. AFAIK, France has huge piles of useless plutonium.

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