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4/25/2012

Position Paper – Robustness of the Cooling Function

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4/25/2012

Cooling the Nuclear fuel is one of the three basic safety functions of Nuclear Power Plants. The Fukushima accident send a clear message to each NPP operators, to verify the robustness of the cooling function against internal and external hazards for all facilities with residual heat generation and, if needed, to strengthen it on all levels of the defense-in-depth concept.

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  • Position Paper – Robustness of the Cooling Function

The Front End Business Group

Center line, FBFC, Romans plant

The AREVA Front End business group combines activities associated with the conversion and enrichment of uranium and with the design and fuel production for nuclear reactors. The production capacities of the group, one of the world's leaders in the sector, are undergoing modernization.

AREVA is one of the first actor for front-end activity.
Key figures

 

  • 21.9% of AREVA's consolidated revenue in 2012
  • 8,727 employees worldwide

Guide tubes for fuel assemblies

The Front End combines the services of conversion and enrichment of uranium along with the design and nuclear fuel production.

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Fuel production: tubes leaving the furnace

The activities of the Front End BG comprise uranium conversion and enrichment, along with the design and manufacturing of nuclear fuel assemblies.

Front end activities around the world

view of Front end activities around the world
Installation of the smokestack during construction of the Georges Besse II plant

Records present the AREVA striking performances within the Business Group Amont.

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Display of the new factory "Georges Besse II"

The Georges Besse II facility will take enrichment activity at AREVA into a new era.