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This turns out not to be the case.

Like all nuclear powers, military use preceded civilian use in France.

In addition, the military actually pushed for a French-made dual-use reactor design for the civilian program, but instead a purely civilian Westinghouse design was chosen.

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The first generation were built to produce electricity and plutonium https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNGG_reactor . Civilian-oriented version chosen later.

Hmm...these are the primarily military reactors I was referring to, even if they also produce some electricity. At that point, France had a military nuclear program.

The civilian nuclear program started in earnest in 1974 with the Messmer plan, and that was based on the purely civilian Westinghouse reactors I mentioned.

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