Word: fueled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...light radioactive and liquid wastes in containers buried either at sea or underground. But the more potent solid radioactive garbage will be shipped back to the countries that produced it. As for the plutonium produced from the waste, it will legally belong to the country that owns the fuel; whether the plutonium is also returned depends on international treaties yet to be worked...
...French plutonium breeder reactor east of Lyon. Now there is concern about a new element in the government's aggressive program. It is a plan to help pay for the country's nuclear expansion by making France a major dealer in that growing international commodity, "spent" atomic fuel...
Since July, salesmen for a firm owned by France's Atomic Energy Commission have been busily signing up foreign power companies for the "reprocessing" of their nuclear wastes by still-to-be-built French facilities. Essentially, these wastes are used-up nuclear fuel in the form of long, needle-like rods encased in zircaloy metal sheaths. Once these rods have been used in a conventional reactor, the utilities normally keep them in large storage tanks that resemble swimming pools. But in reprocessing, the spent fuel is removed from the sheaths; usable quantities of plutonium and uranium are then separated...
...companies are willing to pay a great deal for this service: the cost of the reprocessing of a single kilogram (2.25 lbs.) of uranium currently ranges between $350 and $450. Lately the French have signed cost-plus contracts with ten Japanese utilities to handle 1,600 tons of nuclear fuel over a ten-year period beginning in 1983; at current prices, that deal alone is worth at least $600 million...
...trash as fuel is spreading fast...