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Nuclear
France:
materials and sites
By Mary
Byrd Davis
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ALSACE
STRASBOURG
- UNIVERSITY REACTOR
-- shut down
Purpose: experimental
irradiation and production of short-lived radioisotopes
Type: argonaut reactor
Location: Université Louis Pasteur in Strasbourg (Bas-Rhin)
Operator: Service du réacteur nucléaire universitaire
Period
of operation:
1966-1997
Power: 100 CHUT
Fuel: uranium enriched
to 93 percent (minimal critical mass: 4.80 kg)
The reactor was shut down at the end of 1997. The DSIN authorized the
unloading of fuel from the core March 17, 2000. The fuel was sent to La Hague
[DSIN 00]. The decree authorizing the university to begin the
operations involved in a definitive shut down and dismantling was published
in the Journal officiel
22 February 2006. Dismantling began in
the last half of 2006 and was to be finished in 2008 [ASN 2007]. The building is to be used for teaching and
research that does not involve the handling of radioactive materials
[www.sfen.org, ix 06].
--updated 18 September 2008
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