My dad was a draughtsman and worked on the piping layouts for some of these reactors. We used to spend hours talking about them and he would often sketch out portions of the design from memory. He passed away on my 50th birthday (quite some time ago) and seeing these brought back such a flood of wonderful memories.<p>Thank you OP.
As much as we like to make fun of the French- they are the world's visionary for solving energy production. Which in turn, is the world's best chance to sustain humankind.
I guess <a href="https://econtent.unm.edu/digital/collection/nuceng/id/36/rec/98" rel="nofollow">https://econtent.unm.edu/digital/collection/nuceng/id/36/rec...</a> (which, unlike the others in this collection, is not stationary) was a predecessor to today's "50 Years of Victory" icebreaker?