That was the thought racing through physicist Francis Perrin’s mind in May 1972. He was examining a dark piece of uranium ore at a nuclear fuel processing plant in southern France. The uranium sample, ...

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Using the five megawatt reactor would mean US forces could operate without fear that an enemy might cut fuel supplies.