French Scientist Leading Nuclear Fusion Project Dies at 72

Bernard Bigot

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Paris (AP) -- Bernard Bigot, a French scientist leading a vast international effort to demonstrate that nuclear fusion can be a viable source of energy, has died. He was 72.