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At the end of last month, just days after Iran had confirmed that she is to buy two nuclear reactors from France, a French consortium unexpectedly won the lucrative contract to supply two nuclear reactors to South Africa. Chris Sherwell reports
Canada recently decided to terminate nuclear cooperation with India. Our correspondent in Jullundur gives this assessment of the impact in the subcontinent.
The Ford Administration's plans to boost spending on basic research in the United States have collided with election-year politics in the House of Representatives, and it now seems likely that support for many areas of research will continue to be eroded by inflation at least for another year. Colin Norman reports from Washington
