The Nuclear Waste Crisis in France
Source : A GREENPEACE report. May, 2006
Since the origins of the French nuclear industry some 50 years ago, the management of nuclear waste been largely neglected. Even today, large quantities of nuclear waste remain in unconditioned and unstable form, inventories of historical dump sites are lacking or were lost and one of the largest dump sites in the world near the La Hague reprocessing plant is leaking into the underground water. Now evidence is emerging that a new nuclear dumpsite in the Champagne region of France is leaking radioactivity into the ground water threatening contamination of tritium and at a later stage other radionuclides.
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