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      France had an intense obsession with nuclear power in the 1950s.

      "As of today, France has realized a cyclopean achievement that prefigures the immense possibilities of the atomic era… built as an amphitheater, very picturesque and imposing to see from afar, the factory launches itself forward like a HYMN to the GLORY of industrial creation.

      It would be up to an engineer to describe the G1 pile housed in an immense concrete CATHEDRAL… nothing can match the view of the cooling tower, shooting straight up in one 95 meter bound, haoled by its shimming collar in the intense luminosity of the Sky.

      –The Radiance of France, page 215