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France sticks with nuclear power [1]

FLAMANVILLE, France: It looks like an ordinary building site, but for the two massive, rounded concrete shells looming above the ocean, like dusty mushrooms.

Here on the Normandy coast, France is building its newest nuclear reactor, alongside two older ones. It is the first reactor to be built in the country in 10 years and will cost $5.1 billion. And President Nicolas Sarkozy has announced that France will build yet another.

Publication Date: 
18/08/2008
Steven Erlanger [2]
International Herald Tribune (Bangkok) [3]
Tags:
Nuclear Power [4], Electricity [5], France [6]
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