Treatment activity:
During this period, the UP2 800 and UP3 plants treated 22 tons of spent fuel assemblies from EDF, french power plants and MOX spent fuel assemblies from Grafenrheinfeld, german power plant.
From all treated assemblies, a total of 1064 tons have been processed to date this year.
During this period, 18 canisters of vitrified fission products have been produced(1) in T7 and R7, vitrification facilities.
Since the beginning of the year, 607 canisters have been produced.
The facility of hulls compaction (ACC) produced 34 canister of compacted residues.
Since the beginning of the year, 972 canisters have been produced.
(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.