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"The contract also calls on AREVA to provide uranium to fuel the reactors through 2026. The reactors are to be built by 2013-2014 in the city of Taishan in Guangdong province, an export manufacturing powerhouse with heavy demand for power and high levels of industrial pollution."
Where do you suppose this uranium comes from? Practically all the so-called 'former' French colonial possessions on the African continent; all of which are, at present, in some stage of civil conflict including Libya.
Check this out:
New Uranium Mining Projects - Africa
http://www.wise-uranium.org/upafr.html
Maybe the French refused to participate in the Iraqi conflict because they could account for all the 'yellowcake' in Niger, and used that information as leverage to extort a 52m contract (supposedly) from the Iraqi government to build power plants in Basra.
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2010/11/a-nuclear-standoff-with-libya/67076/
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