Report from February 13th to March 28th, 2012

Since the beginning of the year, 149 tons of EDF spent fuels were treated in one of both plants, with the aim of their recycling. Other plant is in the shutdown for scheduled maintenance.

• 147 containers of vitrified waste⁽¹⁾ were elaborated in vitrification facilities.
• 132 containers of compacted waste were elaborated in the facility of compaction of hulls, which assures the packaging of the metallic structures of spent fuels and allows to divide by 5 the volume of the ultimate waste.

(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.