Nuclear France: materials and sites

By Mary Byrd Davis

 
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LIMOUSIN

PENY -- shut down

Purpose: production of uranium
Type: underground mine and waste dump
Location: Compreignac (Haute-Vienne)
Operator: Cogéma
Period of operation: 1972-1995
Raw materials: uranium ore
Nominal capacity/actual production: ?
Wastes: crushed drums


In the no. 141 slope of waste rock, 88,082 crushed drums or 2116 t of metal have been deposited. The drums, received between 1975 and 1989, are from Malvési and had contained uranates ( see Margnac).

 

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