mo4ch:>After over €700m in investment, France scraps plans for 4th-gen nuke reactor | Mo4ch News

The French nuclear agency has admitted it axed plans to build a prototype fast-breeder nuclear reactor - at least, in the foreseeable future - after spending over a decade and hundreds of million of euros on its development.The decision to not build a prototype of any sort for the ASTRID project (Advanced Sodium Technological Reactor for Industrial Demonstration) was first reported by the French daily Le Monde on Friday. The French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA), the country’s nuclear agency, has confirmed it washed its hands of the “dead” project and is not spending any resources or money to bring it to life.Also on rt.com29 French nuclear reactors vulnerable to natural disaster – safety watchdogAs of late 2017, the project amassed over €730 million ($803 million) in investment, according to public auditor data quoted by Le Monde. The estimated costs of the whole venture – if a prototype had been actually constructed – would have approached a whopping €5 bill…