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EDF to Produce Radioactive Material for France’s Nuclear Weapons
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State-owned Electricite de France SA will start producing radioactive material needed to maintain the country’s nuclear weapons at two of its reactors in central France.
The units at the Civaux site will be fitted to accommodate special material that contains lithium, the defense ministry said in a statement on Monday. Once irradiated, the material will be transfered to a site run by France’s Atomic Energy Commission to produce tritium, a hydrogen isotope used in nuclear weapons.