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The La Hague site is a nuclear fuel reprocessing plant at La Hague on the Cotentin Peninsula in northern France, with the Manche storage centre bordering on it. Operated by Orano , formerly AREVA , and prior to that COGEMA ( Compagnie générale des matières atomiques ), La Hague has nearly half of the world's light water reactor spent nuclear ...
It does not include federal prisons or county jails, nor does it include the North Texas State Hospital; though the facility houses those classified as "criminally insane" (such as Andrea Yates) the facility is under the supervision of the Texas Department of State Health Services. Facilities listed are for males unless otherwise stated.
Reprocessing capacity (tHM/yr) Construction start date Operation date Closure Purpose UP-1 Marcoule: Shut down 0.001 1958 1997 Military CEA APM Marcoule: Fast Breeder PUREX, DIAMEX, SANEX: Operational 6 1988 Civil UP-2 La Hague: LWR: PUREX: Shut down 900 1967 1974 Civil UP-2-400 La Hague: LWR PUREX: Shut down 400 1976 1990 Civil UP-2-800 La ...
Mar. 4—THOMASTON, Maine — In the 20 years since the old Maine State Prison was torn down, the 15-acre parcel along Route 1 in Thomaston where it stood has remained undeveloped open space. Now ...
OECD Nuclear Energy Agency, The Economics of the Nuclear Fuel Cycle, Paris, 1994; I. Hensing and W Schultz, Economic Comparison of Nuclear Fuel Cycle Options, Energiewirtschaftlichen Instituts, Cologne, 1995. Cogema, Reprocessing-Recycling: the Industrial Stakes, presentation to the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, Bonn, 9 May 1995.
The first large-scale nuclear reactors were built during World War II.These reactors were designed for the production of plutonium for use in nuclear weapons.The only reprocessing required, therefore, was the extraction of the plutonium (free of fission-product contamination) from the spent natural uranium fuel.
A U.S. appeals court on Friday canceled a license granted by a federal agency to a company to build a temporary nuclear waste storage facility in western Texas, which the Republican-led state has ...
Earlier in the evening, Consolidated Nuclear Security, LLC (CNS) and National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) officials stated an undisclosed incident occurred at 6:13 p.m., and while there ...