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Is this an accurate description of the Nuclear infrastructure especially financial?

Is this an accurate description of the Nuclear infrastructure, expecially financial?

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Media_Truth said:
Has anybody ever told you that Wikipedia is not the best source? That said, I believe your information to be accurate. It's what is not said that is the problem. France still does not have a deep repository to store it's Long-Term wastes. As a matter of fact, not one country in the world has an active deep repository. Also, do you know if the billions that France has spent on their deep repository effort is factored into their cost of electricity?

How France is disposing of its nuclear waste - BBC News
France generates around three quarters of its electricity from nuclear power but despite decades of activity it is no nearer a solution to the perils of nuclear waste.
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Despite advanced schemes in Finland, not a single country worldwide has an operational underground repository.
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"There are still risks of water ingress especially from the shafts and the top," says Mr Ouzounian, so they are testing ways to seal the waste using a bentonite clay plug.

French law requires companies to build a retrievable scheme, meaning that for the first few hundred years at least, they can remove the waste again should future generations find a better way to get rid of it.

In the US, this waste is stored at the actual power generating facilities, which are usually near heavy population centers on the East Coast, the Southeast, and the Mideast. Despite wastes with half-lives of hundreds of thousands of years, the containment is only rated for 200 years.
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Anybody tell you articles in Wiki are often accurate and sourced?

I thought the argument was the price of the energy.....
 
Fledermaus said:
Anybody tell you articles in Wiki are often accurate and sourced?

I thought the argument was the price of the energy.....
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Yes, but it's more responsible to go to the source itself, so there is no question of who is the source.

Isn't the management of waste part of the cost of nuclear? A feed-lot has to dispose of all the cow dung, and this costs money to collect it, ship it, and dispose of it. It's part of the cost of doing business.
 
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