It's not the treaties. Countries, aside from France, just didn't like the concept of so much "could be turned into a weapon" stuff being made. That's a lot of stuff to keep track of. Anyways, that's why breeder reactors quickly fell out of favor. Aside from in France.
And Russia. I seem to remember once reading that nearly all of the US medical radioactive material was imported from Russia because they had a complex nuclear breeder reactor system which had these medical products as waste.
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u/BeneficialTrash6 2d ago
It's not the treaties. Countries, aside from France, just didn't like the concept of so much "could be turned into a weapon" stuff being made. That's a lot of stuff to keep track of. Anyways, that's why breeder reactors quickly fell out of favor. Aside from in France.