By Richard, Black Environment correspondent, BBC News 12 September 2011 The Marcoule site is one of the oldest in France, and played a significant role in the development of the French nuclear and thermonuclear deterrents.
It opened in 1956 - well after the US began the era of nuclear armaments, at a time when France was among the nations looking to gain their own seat at the nuclear table.
The earliest reactors generated first data and then plutonium for the first successful French test in 1960.
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