Weekly report : from June 13, 2002 through June 19, 2002

Press release

June 20, 2002

Treatment activity :
During this period, the Establishment treated(1) 29.2 tons of fuel assemblies from a batch of EDF. From all treated assemblies, a total of 451.7 tons have been processed to date this year. Three of the six lines of vitrification of fission products were in service. Since the beginning of the year, 238 canisters have been produced.

Shipment activity :
A shipment containing three TN12/2 cask of 36 spent fuel assemblies coming from german power plant of Mülheim-Karlich (PWR 900 MWe) arrived on June 18 at 12:58 pm at the railway terminal of Valognes.

The actuality, it is also... June the 17th, was the inauguration of the facility of compaction of hulls (ACC) with customers of COGEMA. It should be noted that this facility produced 39 canisters of residues compacted since its startup at the end of 2001.

(1)the Treatment consists in separating, within spent fuel, on the one hand, the reusable materials - uranium and plutonium - in order to recycle them and, on the other hand, the ultimate residues - fission products and other waste - in order to condition them in a sure way.
(2)It is about the metal envelope of the spent fuel assemblies as well as metal waste resulting from maintenance operations of the installations.