I was told, jokingly I hope by a frenchman that they sprinkle it on
tourists food.
Drew
In a message dated 12/1/2009 5:53:21 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
lurine AT com-pair.net writes:
As an aside, do you know what France does with their nuclear waste?
Lynda
--"I'm fascinated by the hard line you're drawing over religion -- It gets
used too much, as an excuse, a fall guy, a weapon, a con. A lot of people,
maybe most, don't mean it except when it suits them." Dallas
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From: <Clansgian AT wmconnect.com>
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>
> Likewise France is pointed out, they get all of their electricity from
> nuclear, right? No, it's about 77%. Their per capita electric use is
> about
> half of ours. But more significantly is the fact that France's nuclear
> program
> came about in the 50's because of large amounts of domestic uranium to be
> had. That uranium peaked in the 70's and now France imports nearly all
> the
> uranium it uses for electric power generation. If everyone in the world
> generated 77% of their electricity from nuclear power, the world's
> reserves of
> unanium would be depleted in a few decades and would become prohibitively
> expensive long before that.