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Hu ? Where do you see anything about weapons ? The Marcoule Plant produce MOX fuel to recyle Nuclear waste and they also store Nuclear Waste. And Marcoule is also one of the more important Civil Nuclear Research Facilities.

Oh, and by the way they had a problem with this facility in march also. A level 2 (of 7) accident.

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"The plant produces MOX fuel, which recycles plutonium from nuclear weapon"

You're right.

But BBC is wrong. Marcoule recycle Plutonium comming from COGEMA La Hague nuclear fuel reprocessing plant. And this plant has half the reprocessing capacity... in the World. They reprocess nuclear waste from a lot of countries... including Switzerland or Germany and others which do not have nuclear weapons.

And then all that Nuclear Waste is sent to Marcoule to be recycled.

They ALSO recyle some nuclear weapons. But most nuclear weapons recycling is done in Russia and US. Not in France.

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