Reply #56: The French exploited their former African colonies to mine their uranium

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Those people/countries did not benefit from the exploitation of their uranium resources and were left with a legacy of toxic/radioactive mine wastes.

France's nuclear power industry is also a politically opaque state-owned monopoly that until recently suppressed competition from reneawbles.

Japan's nuclear industry has been fraught with political scandals, safety issues and massive cost overruns for their $20 billion plutonium reprocessing plant.

"works pretty well there" is also Cheney's pro-nuclear mantra...