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Recycling 2,500 metric tons of slightly radioactive lead

The lead furnace - COGEMA* Marcoule

Why not recycle the lead found in our establishments and use it again in a closed loop? In 2003, COGEMA* Marcoule answered this question by creating a process for recycling the lead that remained after clean-up and dismantling of the UP1 treatment plant.

Lead parts - slightly radioactive radiological shielding - are first decontaminated by melting, in line with a specially created product quality standard, and then shaped into ingots. The ingots are finally converted into new biological shielding for use on the site.

* Now AREVA NC

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