New Facility Will Simulate French Nuclear Warheads
Credit: CEA
Ironworkers are preparing to top out construction of a gigantic inertial confinement fusion facility here intended to enable France to simulate the reliability and safety of its nuclear arsenal without resorting to testing. Paris imposed a unilateral moratorium on nuclear testing in 1992, ending a...
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