Ocean drilling enters choppy waters as France and UK question strategy
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France and the UK are planning to withdraw from the international Ocean Drilling Program (ODP). They claim that the program fails to produce results that could justify its budget. Through deep-ocean drilling, ODP examines two-thirds of the Earth's crust that is submerged in water to conduct research on geological changes and climate change. Half of ODP's $45-million annual budget is shouldered by the US while the UK, France, Germany, Japan, Canada, Russia and some other European countries pay the rest. France pays $8.2 million while the UK spends $4.6 million annually for the program.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 1996
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France: Gaullist legacy casts a long shadow
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France's development of science after World War II owes its success to the reconstruction reforms of General Charles de Gaulle, and to the rejuvenating efforts of Francois Mitterrand. The Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique established in 1938 has become the largest fundamental research organization in Europe. The establishment of Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique (CEA), and the agricultural research organization INRA are other major developments of the post war era. The CEA provides a significant contribution to fundamental research in physics.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 1996
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France rings changes in telecoms efforts
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France is to reorganize its telecommunications research, which is currently undertaken mostly by the Centre National d'Etudes des Telecommunications (CNET), part of France Telecom, which is soon to be privatized. It will create the National Network for Telecommunications (RNRT), a national federation, which will coordinate research undertaken by France Telecom. CNET is to remain with France Telecom, as it was not feasible to transform it into a separate public research body, although it will be reorganized eventually.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 1997
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