Weekly report : from December 2nd to 8th, 2004.

12/9/2004
Press release

Treatment activity:

During this period, the UP2 800 and UP3 plants treated 31 tons of spent fuel assemblies from EDF, french power plants and from Grafenrheinfeld, german power plant.
From all treated assemblies, a total of 1095 tons have been processed to date this year.

During this period, 13 canisters of vitrified fission products have been produced(1) in T7 and R7, vitrification facilities.
Since the beginning of the year, 620 canisters have been produced.

The facility of hulls compaction (ACC) produced 24 canister of compacted residues.
Since the beginning of the year, 996 canisters have been produced.

                       
                                                                                                                                                                                                                 
(1)The fission products (ultimate residues of spent fuel) are incorporated in heated glass to approximately 1100°C. The whole is poured in stainless steel containers. The fission products are an integral part of stable, compact and resistant glass. This process is called vitrification.