This website presents facts within the context of an overview of the French nuclear industry. Its purpose is to help users to follow and to understand developments in the industry. The text is an updated version of the book La France nucléaire: matières et sites, 1997, published by WISE-Paris (31-33 rue de la Colonie, 75013 Paris, France). The new version, La France nucléaire: matières et sites 2002, is also published by WISE-Paris, and can be ordered from WISE-Paris's Web site:  http://www.wise-paris.org/francais/france_nucleaire.html  .  The book is only available in French.  

About the author: Other publications by Mary Byrd Davis include The Military Civilian Link: A Guide to the French Nuclear Industry (1988), The Ecologist's Guide to France (1988), The U..S. Uranium Enrichment Establishment (1999) and in coauthorship with Bruno Barrillot, Les déchets militaires nucléaires français (1994). She is director of Yggdrasil and vice president of the Centre de Documentation et de Recherche sur la Paix et les Conflits.  Yggdrasil is a project of Earth Island Institute .

This site was designed by Janet Powell. The graphic on the opening page, like the cover of the original book, is the work of Susan Dembowski.  Numerous individuals, organizations, and agencies have contributed information to this website and to the book on which it is based. We are grateful to all of them.

The support of the W. Alton Jones Foundation, which no longer exists, made possible the creation of this website and the 1997 book on which it is based.  The W. Alton Jones Foundation and the  JMG Foundation generously supported the 2001 edition of the book.