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France’s Flamanville 3 nuclear reactor, its most powerful at 1,600 MW, was connected to the grid on December 21 after 17 years of construction plagued by delays and budget overruns.

The European Pressurized Reactor (EPR), designed to boost nuclear energy post-Chernobyl, is 12 years behind schedule and cost €13.2 billion, quadruple initial estimates.

President Macron hailed the launch as a key step for low-carbon energy and energy security.

Nuclear power, which supplies 60% of France’s electricity, is central to Macron’s plan for a “nuclear renaissance.”

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[-] Zink@programming.dev 3 points 15 hours ago

Yeah or put another way: All that nuclear waste we occasionally talk about burying under a mountain has something like more than 90% of its energy left.

[-] BastingChemina@slrpnk.net 2 points 9 hours ago

No.

They speak about it in the article I linked (in French unfortunately). The waste that we talk about burying is what's left AFTER extracting all the components that could be reused.

[-] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 1 points 14 hours ago

I have always wondered how it's stored... always imagined like 55 Gal drums in some Simpsonsesque way, but that doesn't really make sense... but maybe it does?

[-] Zink@programming.dev 1 points 12 hours ago

Like that but way bigger. The fuel is still in solid form and stored in giant heavy dry casks that essentially armor that fuel from the outside world.

[-] Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 hours ago

Also encased in glass, and both the cask and the glass can stop the radiations on their own iirc.

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