France is the European country most bet on nuclear energy. But not yet been determined where to store radioactive waste. A party is thrown into sea \u200b\u200bor sent to Siberia. 
In Normandy, along the Channel, is the reprocessing plant at La Hague. There the engineers Areva, the nuclear consortium world's largest, spent fuel rods decay of uranium and plutonium, separating the recyclable elements of what is nuclear waste. These wastes are stored properly, says Jacques-Emmanuel Saulnier, a company spokesman: "We remain very strict criteria and do it very carefully, so that the remaining risk is minimal." Greenpeace
alertpuede unless the facility is monitored for about 200 years. But then it is quite possible that everything be forgotten. "
A forgotten may also have serious consequences for Germany as the reservoir would be built close to the border German. De Bure to the German city of Saarbrücken is nothing more than 150 miles away.
Germany in similar straits
Germany also deals with nuclear waste. While Chancellor Angela Merkel decided to extend the period of activity of the nuclear plants are to answer two key questions: where to store the waste and how to dismantle the outdated facilities? The decommissioning of a plant is a costly and laborious. Piece by piece it will disarm the plant and cleaning each component. But even once paralyzed a reactor, the decommissioning of it produces a large amount of highly contaminated nuclear waste.
Such is the case of reactor-Kärlich Mülheim, disconnected from the network for more than 20 years because of improper construction license. The dismantling of this power plant will become 3,000 tons of waste. They have a degree of concern that should be stored in a kind of underground nuclear graveyard, which does not yet exist. Well this is not expected to become operational until 2014. Until then the waste is temporarily stored in other tanks. The risks involved in the process of dismantling and storage will remain a topic of discussion between nuclear plant operators and environmentalists.
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However, Yannick Rousselet, in charge of nuclear issues for Greenpeace France, wary of Areva. In a recent television documentary, Rousselet made it clear that the consortium throws every year 33 million barrels - a hundred liters each - of radioactive water into the sea. Areva claims that it is only 1.5 million barrels. But even this amount reaches for Cobalt-60 and cesium-137 are absorbed by crabs and seaweed and thus enter the food chain.
Although each country must take deposits its nuclear waste in their own territory, France annually transports more than a hundred tons of uranium "spent" to Siberia. This is possible only because Areva uses a legal loophole and declares waste as recyclable material. " But Yannick Rousselet doubt that the radioactive cargo is really reusable. In fact, Russian experts can recover only ten percent of French uranium. The vast majority stay in Siberia and is stored in a totally inappropriate in a park near homes, as reported by opposition politicians.
France seeks a repository for nuclear waste
Lorraine in the town of Bure, in northeast France are being made for eleven years test excavations. A mere 500 meters deep to be saved with a potential nuclear waste radioactive than 200,000 years. That is, the material will continue to radiate long after the steel container or concrete have decomposed. Even the engineer who directs the project is skeptical: "if it is done here in 15 or 20 years, a final deposit may be monitored in the facility for about 200 years. But then it is quite possible that everything be forgotten. "
A forgotten may also have serious consequences for Germany as the reservoir would be built near the German border. De Bure to the German city of Saarbrücken is nothing more than 150 miles away.
Germany in similar straits
Germany also deals with nuclear waste. While Chancellor Angela Merkel decided to extend the period of activity of the nuclear plants are to answer two key questions: where to store the waste and how to dismantle the outdated facilities? The decommissioning of a plant is a costly and laborious. Piece by piece it will disarm the plant and cleaning each component. But even once paralyzed a reactor, the decommissioning of it produces a large amount of highly contaminated nuclear waste.
Such is the case of reactor-Kärlich Mülheim, disconnected from the network for more than 20 years because of incorrect construction license. The dismantling of this power plant will become 3,000 tons of waste. They have a degree of concern that should be stored in a kind of underground nuclear graveyard, which does not yet exist. Well this is not expected to become operational until 2014. Until then the waste is temporarily stored in other tanks. The risks involved in the process of dismantling and storage will remain a topic of discussion between nuclear plant operators and environmentalists.
http://www.dw-world.de/
In Normandy, along the Channel, is the reprocessing plant at La Hague. There the engineers Areva, the nuclear consortium world's largest, spent fuel rods decay of uranium and plutonium, separating the recyclable elements of what is nuclear waste. These wastes are stored properly, says Jacques-Emmanuel Saulnier, a company spokesman: "We remain very strict criteria and do it very carefully, so that the remaining risk is minimal." Greenpeace
alertpuede unless the facility is monitored for about 200 years. But then it is quite possible that everything be forgotten. "
A forgotten may also have serious consequences for Germany as the reservoir would be built close to the border German. De Bure to the German city of Saarbrücken is nothing more than 150 miles away.
Germany in similar straits
Germany also deals with nuclear waste. While Chancellor Angela Merkel decided to extend the period of activity of the nuclear plants are to answer two key questions: where to store the waste and how to dismantle the outdated facilities? The decommissioning of a plant is a costly and laborious. Piece by piece it will disarm the plant and cleaning each component. But even once paralyzed a reactor, the decommissioning of it produces a large amount of highly contaminated nuclear waste.
Such is the case of reactor-Kärlich Mülheim, disconnected from the network for more than 20 years because of improper construction license. The dismantling of this power plant will become 3,000 tons of waste. They have a degree of concern that should be stored in a kind of underground nuclear graveyard, which does not yet exist. Well this is not expected to become operational until 2014. Until then the waste is temporarily stored in other tanks. The risks involved in the process of dismantling and storage will remain a topic of discussion between nuclear plant operators and environmentalists.
http://www.dw-world.de/a
However, Yannick Rousselet, in charge of nuclear issues for Greenpeace France, wary of Areva. In a recent television documentary, Rousselet made it clear that the consortium throws every year 33 million barrels - a hundred liters each - of radioactive water into the sea. Areva claims that it is only 1.5 million barrels. But even this amount reaches for Cobalt-60 and cesium-137 are absorbed by crabs and seaweed and thus enter the food chain.
Although each country must take deposits its nuclear waste in their own territory, France annually transports more than a hundred tons of uranium "spent" to Siberia. This is possible only because Areva uses a legal loophole and declares waste as recyclable material. " But Yannick Rousselet doubt that the radioactive cargo is really reusable. In fact, Russian experts can recover only ten percent of French uranium. The vast majority stay in Siberia and is stored in a totally inappropriate in a park near homes, as reported by opposition politicians.
France seeks a repository for nuclear waste
Lorraine in the town of Bure, in northeast France are being made for eleven years test excavations. A mere 500 meters deep to be saved with a potential nuclear waste radioactive than 200,000 years. That is, the material will continue to radiate long after the steel container or concrete have decomposed. Even the engineer who directs the project is skeptical: "if it is done here in 15 or 20 years, a final deposit may be monitored in the facility for about 200 years. But then it is quite possible that everything be forgotten. "
A forgotten may also have serious consequences for Germany as the reservoir would be built near the German border. De Bure to the German city of Saarbrücken is nothing more than 150 miles away.
Germany in similar straits
Germany also deals with nuclear waste. While Chancellor Angela Merkel decided to extend the period of activity of the nuclear plants are to answer two key questions: where to store the waste and how to dismantle the outdated facilities? The decommissioning of a plant is a costly and laborious. Piece by piece it will disarm the plant and cleaning each component. But even once paralyzed a reactor, the decommissioning of it produces a large amount of highly contaminated nuclear waste.
Such is the case of reactor-Kärlich Mülheim, disconnected from the network for more than 20 years because of incorrect construction license. The dismantling of this power plant will become 3,000 tons of waste. They have a degree of concern that should be stored in a kind of underground nuclear graveyard, which does not yet exist. Well this is not expected to become operational until 2014. Until then the waste is temporarily stored in other tanks. The risks involved in the process of dismantling and storage will remain a topic of discussion between nuclear plant operators and environmentalists.
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