Treatment activity :
During this week, 22.49 tons of spent fuel assemblies from EDF and Philippsburg - Germany (Boiling Water Reactor) power plants have been processed on the site.
From all treated assemblies, a total of 645.84 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, 379 canisters have been produced.
Shipment activity :
A shipment containing one cask with 28 canisters of vitrified waste left on September 24 at 13 hours the railway terminal of Valognes to Belgium. These residues were conveyed to the Belgoprocess **site for storage in a dedicated building in Dessel (Belgium) .
* 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.
** Belgoprocess: company in charge of the processing and the conditioning of all the radioactive waste produced in Belgium
9/26/2002