Weekly report : from September 9th to 15th, 2004.

Press release

September 17, 2004

Treatment activity:

During this period, the UP3 plant treated 20,35 tons of spent fuel assemblies from Isar, german power plant.
From all treated assemblies, a total of 840 tons have been processed to date this year.

During this period, 13 canisters of vitrified fission products have been produced(1) in T7, vitrification facility.
Since the beginning of the year, 421 canisters have been produced.

It should be noted that the facility of hulls compaction (ACC) produced 30 canister of compacted residues.
Since the beginning of the year, 746 canisters have been produced.
                                                                                                          
The actuality, it is also...
One shipment of one cask (TN12,/2) of spent fuel assemblies from Gosegen, swiss power plant arrived at the Valognes railway terminal on the September, 15th at 9:32 am.    

(1)The fission products (ultimate residues of spent fuel) are incorporated in heated glass to approximately 1100°C. The whole is poured in stainless steel containers. The fission products are an integral part of stable, compact and resistant glass. This process is called vitrification.