Weekly report : from July 25, 2002 through July 31, 2002

7/31/2002
Press release

Treatment activity :
Head-end facilities are on a shutdown period for maintenance. From all treated assemblies, a total of 526.12 tons have been processed to date this year. One of the six lines of vitrification of fission products was in service.
Since the beginning of the year, 314 canisters have been produced. It should be noted that the facility of compaction of hulls (ACC) produced 67 canisters of residues compacted since its startup at the end of 2001.

Shipment activity :
July the 30th, a shipment containing five casks of 68 spent fuel assemblies coming from german power plant of Mülheim-Karlich and Phillipsburg arrived at the railway terminal of Valognes.

The actuality, it is also... Works of disassembling, in the zone of marling, of the old pipe of liquid releases are in progress accordance with the program.
The results of analyses of the samples performed in accordance with the specific programme of monitoring of the environment of the site are all lower than 1 Bq/g.