On this day in 1948, Zoé (aka EL-1) the first French nuclear reactor reaches first criticality.

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  1. Is that why the Renault BEV is named Zoe? If so some Germans which consider themselves green for driving it will be pissed…

  2. This looks a lot like the first Belgian nuclear reactor BR1, that reached first crit in 1956. So this one is probably an identical graphite – air cooled one as well.

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