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La Hague

American  
[luh heyg] / lə ˈheɪg /

noun

  1. Cape, a cape in NW France, in the English Channel near Cherbourg: the NW extremity of the Cotentin Peninsula.


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The facility at La Hague, with its 1980s-era buildings and Star Wars-style control rooms, has its limitations.

From Reuters • Feb. 3, 2023

Since the launch of the site at La Hague in 1976, it has treated nearly 40,000 tonnes of radioactive material and recycled some into nuclear fuel that can be re-used.

From Reuters • Feb. 3, 2023

But La Hague is a testament to how the amount of true waste can be reduced through reprocessing.

From Slate • Jun. 7, 2019

Other sources of radioactive material for scientists to track water movements have been the nuclear reprocessing plants at Sellafield in the UK and at La Hague in France.

From BBC • Aug. 16, 2017

In August he conducted them as far as Brussels on their way back to Dresden, and together they visited Fontainebleau, Orleans, Bourges, his much-loved Tours, Blois, Rotterdam, La Hague, and Antwerp.

From Honore de Balzac, His Life and Writings by Sandars, Mary F. (Mary Frances)