Treatment activity :
During this period, the Establishment treated (1) 33.82 tons of spent fuel assemblies from EDF power plant and 26.44 tons of spent fuel assemblies from german power plants. From all treated assemblies, a total of 327.8 tons have been processed to date this year. Three of the six lines of vitrification of fission products were in service.
Since the beginning of the year, 170 canisters have been produced. It should be noted that the facility of compaction of hulls (ACC) produced 31 canisters of residues compacted (2) since its startup at the end of 2001.
The actuality, it is also... Work of disassembling in the zone of marling, of the old pipe of liquid releases continues in accordance with the program.
(1) Because of May 8 and the bank holidays, weekly report relates exceptionally to tow weeks.
(2) the Treatment consists in separating, within spent fuel, on the one hand, the reusable materials - uranium and plutonium - in order to recycle them and, on the other hand, the ultimate residues - fission products and other waste - in order to condition them in a sure way.
(3) It is about the metal envelope of the spent fuel assemblies as well as metal waste resulting from maintenance operations of the installations.