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Originally Posted by Damien
Do we even have the ability to build a nuclear power plant? I think we have to depend on foreign expertise anyway.
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Yes.
We produce our own thermonuclear warheads for the Trident 2 system, we buy the missiles from the US and put our own warheads on top.
We produced the plutonium for our first fission bomb from our own facilities.
We actually had the first commercial nuclear reactor in the world.
EDIT: I should mention, however, that most of our current nuclear power plants are run by EDF, they having bought the privatised entity British Energy.
Joys of privatisation. Our nuclear facilities are largely run by a company majority owned by the French government.