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> it doesn't explain why the fission nuclear energy industry everywhere has failed to excel. Isn’t French nuclear powering 70% of all their needs?
by barry-cotter 4y ago
> it doesn't explain why the fission nuclear energy industry everywhere has failed to excel.
Isn’t French nuclear powering 70% of all their needs?
- SuoDuanDao 4y agoare they reprocessing spent fuel? That seemed to be the crux of the parent comment.
- Xylakant 4y agoThey have nearly half of the worlds reprocessing capacity in their plant in La Hague https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Hague_site https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Hague_site
- Schroedingersat 4y agoAnd how much energy does the fuel coming from that plant produce each year as a fraction of the whole?
- SuoDuanDao 4y agoNet energy might be a better measure - a plant could produce a huge amount of energy from reprocessed fuel, but if it costs more energy to rerefine the fuel than mine similar fuel from rock formations...
- Jedd 4y agoSure, everyone points to France when talking about nuclear fission - adoption, abandonment, success, failure - taken over the past 50 years they've got it all. France would have been subject to pressure from the USA at the time, so it's certainly a notable anomaly from this angle, as well as several others. I think this makes it an interesting case study, but doesn't (given it's such an exceptional example) explain the phenomenon we're talking about.