Spent fuel coming from Germany arriving at the Valognes railway terminal

6/18/2002
Press release
Three casks of spent fuel from German nuclear power plants are arrived at the COGEMA railway terminal in Valognes on june 18th 12:58am.

All of the fuel will be placed in spent fuel storage pools at La Hague for a period of cooling. They will then be reprocessed to separate recyclable materials and condition the final waste, both of which will be returned to Germany for storage and disposal.