COGEMA La Hague: production and transport December, 2004

Press release

February 03, 2005

Update on spent fuel stored at COGEMA la Hague
on December 31, 2004
Listed by country and receiving period
(tons of heavy metal)

	France	Germany	Belgium	Switzerland	Netherlands	Japan	Australia
Natural uranium oxide spent fuel	7156	320		89	29
	1985-2004	1995-2004		1998-2004	1994-2004
Recycled uranium oxide spent fuel	155	1
	1991-2004	1992
Light water MOX spent fuel	479	48		2
	1996-2004	1990-2004
RTR spent fuel	0,6		0,4				0,2
	1997-2004		1998-2004				2000-2004

 

Reprocessing schedule for foreign fuel stored at COGEMA la Hague
on December 31, 2004
(listed by country)

 

	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008
Germany
Natural uranium oxide spent fuel
Recycled uranium oxide spent fuel
Light water MOX spent fuel
Belgium
RTR spent fuel
Suisse
Natural uranium oxide spent fuel
Netherlands
Natural uranium oxide spent fuel
Australia
RTR spent fuel

Return of vitrified residues
(Flasks schedule by country , situation on December 31, 2004)
Period 1994 - 2004: finalized
2005 - 2011: scheduled

	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	Total of flaks
Japan	0	1	0	2	3	6	8	6	0	6	5	12	6	0	0	0	0	0	55
Germany	0	0	1	2	0	0	0	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	9	9	129
Belgium	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	2	1	1	2	3	2	0	0	0	0	14
Switzerland	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	1	1	2	1	3	2	2	1	0	16
Netherlands(*)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	1	1	1	1	0	0	6
Total	0	1	1	4	3	6	10	20	16	20	20	29	23	18	15	15	10	9	220

UP2, UP3 SA et POST SA hors RTR


(*) 4 flasks under the EPZ contract are to be returned after 2011
The return of the australian vitrified residues are envisaged in 2015