Treatment activity:
During this period, the Establishment treated 29 tons of spent fuel assemblies coming from EDF power plants and Isar 2, german power plant.
From all treated assemblies, a total of 216 tons have been processed to date this year.
During this period, 14 canisters of vitrified fission products have been produced(1).
Since the beginning of the year, 49 canisters have been produced.
It should be noted that the facility of hulls compaction (ACC) produced 27 canisters of compacted residues.
Since the beginning of the year, 141 canisters have been produced.
Shipment activity :
One shipment of 4 casks of spent fuel assemblies from Germany arrived at the Valognes railway terminal on the February 5th at 12:37 pm.
One departure of vitrified residues on the February 10th, took place the 7th return of vitrified residues from France to Belgium. This transport consisted of a packing containing 28 containers of glass.
(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.