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France has significantly less spent fuel to deal with since they allow civilian energy production to reprocess spent fuel back into usable fuel.



True, but breeder technology has a lot more potential for weaponry proliferation (part of the reason France is so much invested in nuclear is precisely because of that.)

And it’s not as easy as recycling empty glass bottles… the French struggled to keep their breeders online and keep them economical (but then the military we’re still happy so…)




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