Nuclear France: materials and sites

By Mary Byrd Davis

 

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BASSE-NORMANDIE- LOWER NORMANDY

LA HAGUE

Purpose/type: to reprocess irradiated fuel to produce military and civilian plutonium

Installations: AT1 shut down, UP2 and UP2/HAO shut down, UP2-800, UP3

Location: 290-ha area at Digulleville, Jobourg, Omonville la Petite (Manche), west of Cherbourg

Operator: in the beginning the CEA; since June 1976, Cogéma, which became in March 2006, Areva NC 

Period of operation: since 1966

Raw material: irradiated fuel from France and abroad

Procedure: Purex

Nominal capacity: a total of 1700 t/yr of irradiated fuel (up to 1000 t each) for UP2-800 and UP3

Actual production: in 2008, reprocessed a total of 937 t of irradiated fuel; in 2009, 929 t

Wastes: solution of fission products and transuranians, substantial emissions

 

 

                                                                                                               

I. REPROCESSING INSTALLATIONS

II. PRODUCTS AND BYPRODUCTS OF REPROCESSING

III. RETURN OF WASTE FROM THE REPROCESSING OF FOREIGN FUEL

IV. REPROCESSING CONTRACTS

V. MODIFICATION OF THE DECREES PERMITTING OPERATION OF UP2-800 AND UP3

VI. SECURITY PROBLEMS

 

 

See also The La Hague Reprocessing Plant: Basic Facts: Infrastructure, Contracts and Products, a short report drawn from material on this web site.

                                                                 

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