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French Govt Says Hazardous Nuclear Waste Must Be Stored Underground
Paris (AFP) Jun 15, 2006 The French parliament Thursday passed a bill providing for the most hazardous nuclear waste to be stored deep underground from 2025, in a site to be chosen by 2015. The site must be capable of safely holding waste that will be dangerous for thousands or even hundreds of thousands of years. Deputies insisted on tight control for setting up the site, including rigorous testing procedures beforehand. While only 0.2 percent of the more than one million tonnes of waste produced in the past 40 years was considered the most dangerous, it accounted for 91.68 percent of total radioacivity emitted, according to official figures. At present it is stored on the surface in secure conditions, but it could not remain there indefinitely, parliament was told. The cost of confining it over 100 years is estimated at some 15 billion euros (19 billion dollars). The bill also provided for continued research into reducing the half-life of radioactive materials, and barred the storage of foreign waste in France. France derives most of its electricity from nuclear power, and only Green deputies criticised the bill, saying that the best way to deal with nuclear waste was to stop producing it.
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Americans Not Warming To Nuclear Power
Washington DC (SPX)Jun 20, 2006Despite a major sales push by the Bush Administration and the electrical utility industry, nuclear power is viewed in a deeply skeptical way by a "strong and strikingly bipartisan majority" of Americans, according to a major new Opinion Research Corporation (ORC) survey released by the Civil Society Institute. |
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