More than 15,000 police were deployed to protect six rail cars carrying nuclear waste being shipped from a reprocessing plant in La Hague, France, to a storage site in the northern German town of ...

Forty years of France’s nuclear waste is stored in three storage halls at La Hague—9,500 containers containing vitrified nuclear waste in pits 20 meters deep.

La Hague extracts plutonium from used nuclear fuel, which it then sends to Areva's Melox plant in southeast France, which produces MOX fuel - a mixture of plutonium and spent uranium - for 22 ...

Radioactive contaminants have been legally released for more than half a century from the nuclear reprocessing plants at Sellafield (UK) and La Hague (France). Scientists have recently begun to ...