What is the origin of AREVA name?
AREVA was created in 2001. When it was announced, on 30 November 2000, that CEA-Industrie, COGEMA, Framatome ANP and FCI were to merge, a French business daily compared the future structure of the company to "a Cistercian abbey that weds perfect symmetry to great dignity".
This gave us the idea, as we began the search for a new name, of looking at a list of such edifices to see if one of their names suited our purposes. We wanted a simple name, one that was phonetically pleasant and easy to pronounce, one that sounded modern as opposed to fashionable, one that stirred the imagination.
Our inspiration came from the region of Avila in northern Spain, location of the Arevalo abbey. Its name, minus one syllable, became AREVA.
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