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La Hague used to dump small quantities of radioactive liquid (mainly water used to clean barrels that contained weakly radioactiv waste) in Nort Sea. When I lef
by webreac 6y ago
La Hague used to dump small quantities of radioactive liquid (mainly water used to clean barrels that contained weakly radioactiv waste) in Nort Sea. When I left (in 1999), the project to completely stop this dump was well advanced. The idea was to vaporized the water and collect the remains in a barrel.
You are right that we have a lot of plutonium that we can not use. The intent of superphenix was to use this plutonium. It failed.
- p_l 6y agoApparently it burned quite a lot of it, though? Pity that it got closed, I hope technical issues are fixed and a new device based on better understanding replaces it.