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Mr Oursel, currently the head of the firm's reactor division, is an unexpected choice to succeed Ms Lauvergeon.
Though the Naval Academy graduated its first women more than 20 years ago, the influx of women in the reactor division has occurred only in the last five years or so, said Cmdr.
In 2009 Mr Proglio suggested that EDF, which is Areva's biggest customer, should take control of the firm's reactor division, to create a fully integrated French nuclear-energy champion.
Areva dismisses these setbacks as the typical teething pains that come with any new design, but the result is a big hole in its balance sheet: its reactor division reported a loss of €266m ($340m) in the first half of the year.
"It's true, we underestimated the consequences of that," concedes Luc Oursel, the new president of Areva NP, the company's reactor division.
To pull off the transaction, Areva would first have to buy out the 34% stake that Siemens AG holds in Areva's nuclear reactor division, valued at $1.4 billion or so.
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After a year of training, Sand spent his fourth and fifth years in active duty as a nuclear reactor controls division officer aboard USS Abraham Lincoln, an aircraft carrier based north of Seattle.
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But Downing Street is said to favour investing in a new generation of reactors, a division which mirrors the debate in Finland three years ago.
Mr. Shaw was also the director of the division of reactor research and development at the Atomic Energy Commission, from 1964 to 1973.
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