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France has muttered about making its nukes available to other European countries. France also has the world’s largest nuclear reprocessing plant, and actually b
by rsynnott 2y ago
France has muttered about making its nukes available to other European countries. France also has the world’s largest nuclear reprocessing plant, and actually burns plutonium in its reactors (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcoule_Nuclear_Site https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcoule_Nuclear_Site), so is in a good position to produce more warheads quickly, if required.
> Less symbolically, Poland has a Section 123 treaty agreement with the United States[1], which obligates nonproliferation and is tied to literally tens of billions[2] in ongoing commercial nuclear power investments.
I mean, Poland has another treaty with the US (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Atlantic_Treaty https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Atlantic_Treaty), but, y’know…
> something that'd be stupidly expensive with the amount of nuclear reactors Poland is currently buying from the USA
Those are now not due to start til _2040_, so I’d be surprised if much money has changed hands yet. Other nuclear vendors are available (notably, again, France).
Like, this is all obviously very extreme stuff, but if we are seeing a US re-alignment towards Russia, which, well, is kind of how things are looking, then, y’know, it’s an extreme situation.