PROVENCE-ALPES-COTE-D’AZUR Purpose: support for the navy and aeronaval forceType: home port and arsenalLocation: presqu’île de Saint-Mandrier (port) (Var) where the arsenal is locatedOperator: DCN (arsenal) and navy (port)Period of operation: since 1983 Materials handled: plutonium, uranium, tritium The arsenal is responsible for the maintenance and the overhauling of the ships based at Toulon, the six attack submarines with nuclear propulsion (SNA) and, starting in 2000, the nuclear-propelled aircraft carrier Charles-de-Gaulle, which replaced the Foch. The site has facilities for loading and unloading nuclear fuel from at least the submarines and a pool for storing irradiated fuel [défis ii-iii.04]. It stores solid wastes from the ships and the support installations including ion-exchange resins (in 2000, 1623 liters of resins with a total radioactivity of 70 GBq).
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