The volume of the ultimate high-level waste was indeed very small: the contribution of a family of four using electricity for 20 years is a glass cylinder the size of a cigarette lighter. It was assumed that this high-level waste would be buried in underground geological storage and in the 80s French engineers began digging exploratory holes in France's rural regions.
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Nuclear Energy, in good hands, is safe & efficient. The moment it becomes Chernobyl .... you know what it would mean!!
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