Treatment activity :
During this period, one of the two shearing and dissolution facility started up after a shutdown period for maintenance. This facility treated(2) 2.14 tons of spent fuel assemblies from a batch of Neckar (PWR). One of the six lines of vitrification of fission product was in service.
Since the beginning of the year, canisters have been produced.
The actuality, it is also... Works of disassembling, in the zone of marling, of the old pipe of liquid releases are in progress accordance with the program.
The result of analyses of the samples performed in accordance with the specific environmental monitoring program of the site are all lower than 1 Bq/g.
(1) Because of the August 15 bank holidays, weekly report relates exceptionally to two 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.
8/22/2002