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France shows the way with nuclear power and nuclear waste.(Quick Quotes)(Brief article)

The New American

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"Instead of storing its waste at each nuclear plant (as in the United States) or burying it in containers underground (as we would do if Yucca opens), the French take their waste to a massive plant in Normandy where spent fuel is recycled."

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