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Nuclear Waste in Eastern Europe
How to deal with nuclear waste? Hungary and Bulgaria have different approaches.
As more and more countries around the world contemplate nuclear power as a solution to their energy needs, the unsolved question of how to safely dispose of nuclear waste becomes more pressing. In particular, what to do with spent nuclear fuel which remains extremely radioactive for hundreds of thousands of years. Our Central Europe correspondent Nick Thorpe contrasts the approach of two east European countries, Hungary and Bulgaria.
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