The French Nuclear Industry Is Bad Enough in France; Let's Not Expand It to the U.S.

AlterNet by Linda Gunter | Mar. 23, 2009 (News Report)
Areva, France's nuclear industry, has a solid reputation, but a trail of radioactive waste and deaths in Africa follow its wake.

But France's monopolistic dependency on splitting the atom to turn on the lights has come with a huge price -- not only financially but in environmental and health costs. In reality, France is a radioactive mess, additionally burdened with an overwhelming amount of radioactive waste, much of which is simply dispersed into the surrounding environment. Full Story »

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Subjects: Health, Sci/Tech, World, Business
Topics: Nuclear Power, France, Energy, Environment
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Posted by: Posted by Mike LaBonte - Mar 23, 2009 - 12:19 PM PDT
Reviewed by: Mike LaBonte (review), Fabrice Florin (review), Jim Lang (review), Dwight Rousu (review), Tanya J. Maurer (review)
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Edited by: Fabrice Florin - Mar 23, 2009 - 12:52 PM PDT
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 by Dwight Rousu - Mar. 24, 2009

The detailed story of Nuclear Power generation in France gives the lie to the U.S. pro-nuclear claims of a nuclear nirvana in France. The article is broad ranging and detailed, but lacks good identification of sources.

Nuclear power is an environmental disaster.

Areva’s subsidiary at Tricastin, the huge nuclear complex where the spill occurred — contaminating two rivers, kept quiet about the accident and then denied the ... More »

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 by Mike LaBonte - Mar. 23, 2009
Mike posted this story.
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 by Jim Lang - Mar. 23, 2009

Wow, what a diatribe! With a few facts, a lot of inuendo and more unrelated information the writer takes off. This is the type of journalism that is intended to reinforce preconceived notions, scare others and leave the moderately informed shaking their heads.

Nuclear power has problems, neither the French governement nor Areva is saintly and the antinuclear movement has grown in France since the Chernobyl ... More »

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 by Fabrice Florin - Mar. 23, 2009
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 by Tanya J. Maurer - Mar. 24, 2009

Information is presented that we seldom hear.

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