Treatment activity :
During this period, the Establishment treated(1) 25.8 tons of fuel assemblies from a batch of EDF. From all treated assemblies, a total of 422.5 tons have been processed to date this year. Four of the six lines of vitrification of fission products were in service.
Since the beginning of the year, 216 canisters have been produced. It should be noted that the facility of compaction of hulls (ACC) produced 37 canisters of residues compacted since its startup at the end of 2001.
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.
(1)the Treatment consists in separating, within spent fuel, on the one hand, the reusable materials - uranium and plutonium - in order to recycle them and, on the other hand, the ultimate residues - fission products and other waste - in order to condition them in a sure way.
(2)It is about the metal envelope of the spent fuel assemblies as well as metal waste resulting from maintenance operations of the installations.
6/13/2002