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Saturday, 4 January 2020

France building own nuclear submarine according to the Dutch newspaper Friese Koerier dated 8 November 1958

An item reported that according to officials France intended to use for her first nuclear submarine an American reactor using enriched uranium as fuel. The reason for this decision was that experiment with natural uranium as fuel failed. The hull of the submarine was being build at Cherbourg. The newspaper Amigoe di Curacao dated 14 November confirmed this item.