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> https://www.energy.gov/em/cleanup-sites shows what seem like a dozen sites

Virtually all of these are nuclear weapons sites, not civilian power sites. A quick skim shows that the contamination in many of them has to do with producing plutonium, which current power reactors do not even use.

> And what of other nations?

Like France?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_France

France has been producing the majority of its electricity from nuclear power for going on 40 years.



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