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View in the CEA Cesta site (Centre d'Etudes Scientifiques et Techniques d'Aquitaine) during the visit of the laser megajoule by French President Nicolas Sarkozy in Le Barp, near Bordeaux, France on October
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View in the CEA Cesta site (Centre d'Etudes Scientifiques et Techniques d'Aquitaine) during the visit of the laser megajoule by French President Nicolas Sarkozy in Le Barp, near Bordeaux, France on October
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General view from above the 140-ton aluminium sphere covered with metal plates, measuring 10 metres in diameter and is 10 centimetres thick, at the Megajoule Laser project (LMJ), currently under construction at
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