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    The Chernobyl disaster began on 26 April 1986 with the explosion of the No. 4 reactor of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant near the city of Pripyat in...
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    gigantic site run by the atomic energy organization Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique (CEA) and Areva NC and is known as CEA VALRHO Marcoule. The first industrial...
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  • explosion with radioactive material, serving primarily as an area denial device against civilians. It is not to be confused with a nuclear explosion,...
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    program in 1959. The centre is operated by the Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA, en: Atomic Energy and Alternative Energy...
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    until the factory's closure in 1959. In 1961, the Commissariat à l'énergie atomique (CEA) assumed control of the site and a significant portion of its workforce...
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    (1939) 470 and 680. Bendjebbar, André (2000). Histoire secrète de la bombe atomique française (in French). Paris: Cherche Midi. ISBN 978-2-862-74794-1. OCLC 45842105...
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    Media Under High Dynamic Pressure. (Éditions du Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique, Centre d'Études Nucléaires de Saclay, Paris) (Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory...
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  • manager Georges Besse was assassinated. In their investigation La République atomique, France-Iran le pacte nucléaire, David Carr-Brown and Dominique Lorentz...
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    laboratory and continued in Ivry-sur-Seine at the Laboratoire de Synthèse Atomique (founded under the Popular Front under the aegis of the Caisse Nationale...
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    HAUTE ACTIVITE - TOME II LES DECHETS MILITAIRES". www.senat.fr. La bombe atomique en héritage, L'Humanité, February 21, 2007 (in French) 1960: France explodes...
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