Weekly report : from September 16th to 22th, 2004.

Press release

September 24, 2004

Treatment activity:

During this period, the UP3 plant treated 18 tons of spent fuel assemblies from Isar and Unterweser, german power plants.
From all treated assemblies, a total of 858 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, 434 canisters have been produced.

It should be noted that the facility of hulls compaction (ACC) produced 17 canister of compacted residues.
Since the beginning of the year, 763 canisters have been produced.                     

(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.