Report from November 21th to December 5th, 2011

A campaign of treatment of used fuels EDF is in progress.

Since the beginning of the year, 919 tons of spent fuels were treated with the aim of their recycling, so allowing the recovery of energy still contained in every spent fuel (96 % of Uranium and Plutonium).

As regards the remaining 4 %, they are vitrified. 603 containers of vitrified waste were produced during this period.

As regards the facility of compaction of hulls, which assures the compaction of the metallic structures of used fuels, 1224 compacted containers were elaborated since the beginning of the year.
This compaction allows to divide by 5 the volume of ultimate waste.