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Nuclear France: materials and sites
By Mary Byrd Davis
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LIMOUSIN
FANAY --
shut down
Purpose: production of uranium
Type: former underground mine
Location: Saint-Sylvestre (Haute-Vienne) in the concession of Saint Sylvestre
Operator: Cogéma
Period of operation: ? closed
Raw materials: uranium ore
Nominal capacity/actual production: ?
400 m3 of crushed drums are stored in the surface mine Fanay B. The drums were taken to Bouchet in 1971 and had contained uranothorianite. According to Cogéma [91a] and Andra [99], their activity is less than 0.01 TBq.
At the commune of Saint-Sylvestre springs disappeared because of the exploitation of the mines [Clavaud 80].
Andra writes that remediation was completed in 1997 [Andra 00].
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