France reprocesses their spent fuel. That way the expended fuel is recycled into new, fresh fuel. That is done in a breeder reactor, which our glorious President Carter banned us from doing, as breeder reactors and create the dreaded thing called ‘plutonium’.
EEK, plutonium!!!
Central planning if bad, but central planning based of ferry tales and unicorn ranches is really bad. Fails every time it it tried.
Now they have a double whammy..pay for the PIIGS and imported power.
“That is done in a breeder reactor, which our glorious President Carter banned us from doing”
I think Carter was the worst Potus ever, but when it comes to nukes i’d belived anything he said. He graduated in nuclear physics, he was also part of the clean up crew at the chalk river nuclear labs. So i’d guess chances that he was right on THIS decision are good.