Weekly report : from September 23th to 29th, 2004.

Press release

September 30, 2004

Treatment activity:

During this period, the UP3 plants treated spent fuel assemblies from Grohnde and Unterweser, german power plants.
From all treated assemblies, a total of 872 tons have been processed to date this year.

During this period, 9 canisters of vitrified fission products have been produced(1) in T7, vitrification facility.
Since the beginning of the year, 443 canisters have been produced.

It should be noted that the facility of hulls compaction (ACC) produced 29 canisters of compacted residues.
Since the beginning of the year, 792 canisters have been produced.

The actuality, it is also...

One shipment of vitrified waste left on September 28th at 17:25 am the railway terminal of Valognes to Netherlands. It was the first return from vitrified residues , it was a cask contained 28 canisters of 14.5 tons of vitrified residues. It correspond to 48.8 uranium tons, which allowed to supply more than 2 millions of Dutch with electricity during one year. 
                                                                                                                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                         

(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.