France seeks to lead an energy-hungry world back to nuclear power-by Angela Charlton
CHALON-SUR-SAONE, France (AP) - At a factory nestled among Burgundy vineyards, workers shape, bore, polish and test pieces needed to put together a nuclear reactor. At each work station, technical charts are pasted next to a map of the country buying the product. A reactor core marked for the Salem plant in New Jersey is propped on its side, five metres wide and resembling a chunk of an enormous railroad tunnel. Nearby, workers prepare to broach holes into a plate for 15,000 cooling tubes for a reactor in Ling'ao, China.
Twenty years after the Chornobyl nuclear plant coughed a cloud of radiation over much of Europe and scared consumers and governments away from atomic power for a generation, a new crop of leaders, from North America to Europe to Asia, is thinking nuclear.
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