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Nuclear Weapons and Nuclear Generated Electricity in France

AuthorWISE Paris
Date1986*
Classification 2.02.0.00/45 (FRANCE - GENERAL)
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From the publication:

Introduction

France now obtains approximately 60% of her electricity from nuclear energy; 
and  she has a three-pronged nuclear strike force which she has built with little 
help from other nations. Moreover, she carries out all stages of the nuclear fuel 
cycle within her borders.

The Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) stated in its activity report for 1973 that due 
to budgetary constraints it should, in producing nuclear material for the military, 
"take advantage of technological progress and civilian programs (which have 
themselves greatly benefited from military programs)." France has been able to 
exercise a leadership role in the nuclear industry, because she has done just this-
exploited the fact that the civilian and the military atom are basically the same.

These pages are intended to provide a frame of reference for people wishing to 
understand the structure of the French industry and, in particular, the way in which 
France combines the civilian and the military. They are by no means a complete list 
of organizations, companies, or facilities connected with the industry. Under the fuel 
cycle, for instance, they give only key facilities believed to be in operation or under 
construction; and they do not list the companies that build and maintain reactors for 
utilities. Also, exports are not discussed.

As to format--in an effort to avoid complicating the already confusing area of 
acronyms, the French forms of acronyms are retained throughout; but full names 
except those of companies and geographical locations, have been translated. In 
naming locations, departments of France are given in parentheses; after first 
references, installations of the CEA and its subsidiary COGEMA, are referred to by 
their familiar names rather than by their exact geographical locations; names of 
cities are not repeated in citing locations, if they are clear in the titles of the 
facilities themselves. Brackets indicate that a unit is not in service.

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