Partnering for a leading industry : nuclear fuels recycling by AREVA
Isabelle Leboucher, Serge Runge
VP CIS & Eastern Europe region
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The tripod of used fuels management
R&D Process Development & Innovation
Know how & Operation Process Qualification & Optimisation
Engineering Process Implementation & Improvement
Building strong partnerships is the only way to master the tripod
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R&D :
Process development & Innovation
X Rosatom & AREVA :
More than 10 years of collaboration on Fuel fabrication, waste
and effluents treatment
Pre-concept studies, technical seminars Various institutes involved :
VNIIM , VNIPIET Institute Khlopin, NIIAR, GKhK, Mayak, SCC (Seversk)
X CEA & AREVA : historical R&D partnership
Preparing future of recycling Continuous improvement : coex, vitrification,
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Engineering :
Process Implementation & continuous improvement
X Partnership helps
Industrys localisation with development of subcontractors Bringing best practises with capitalisation on various
experiences
X Few examples in 2008
Savannah River Remediation consortium
Treatment & disposal effluents Savannahs site AREVA, URS, Babcock & Wilcox, Bechtel, CH2M Hills constructors
Washington River Protection Solutions LLC
Management of Hanford site tank cleanup and dismantling program AREVA, URS, Energy solutions
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Process qualification & optimisation
In order to accelerate solving technical problems and to improve plant operation, the NDA decided to call on non domestic complementary skills: Signed in 2005 an agreement with British Nuclear Group for technical support pertaining to performance improvement of the Thorp vitrification facility NMP to become the owner of Sellafield Ltd. shares on November 24, under a transition agreement announced October 6 by Sellafield's owner, the UK NDA
Know how & operation :
Partnerships strengthen over years of confidence
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International cooperation for nuclear development
START agreement to reduce plutonium stockpiles from Weapons
AIDA MOX to reduce Russian stockpile (AREVA, .) US decision to convert 34 tons of weapon grade Plutonium into
MOX fuel for LWR, MFFF construction starting in 2007
Studies on a similar plant in Russia with Russian and US
partners
2008 : Russian decision to burn Pu in FBR
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Recycling in the US
AREVA consortium
X Consortium was built to answer to GNEP initiative
AREVA (recycling leader), MHI (FBR leader) and JNFL (recycling) Washington Group (engineering), BWXT (safety) and Battelle
(R&D/inovation)
X Advisors
Finance : J.P. Morgan, Citigroup Utilities : Exelon, Entergy, TVA, Duke, Progress, Constellation, EDF
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Partnerships help building a recycling industry :
The Japanese case
R&D Process Development & Innovation
Global Partnership : tests in JNFLs facility (2009) RRP & J-MOX
Know how & Operation Process Qualification & Optimisation
RECO JV : Components manufacturing
Engineering Process Implementation & Improvement
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A Universal canister worldwide
Japan
Netherlands Australia UK
Belgium
Germany
Switzerland France
Italy Spain
Partnering enables standardisation
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Transportation and Fuel Handling
X GREMIKHA:
Remediation of former naval maintenance
base
Submarine spent fuel management
X PNTL :
INS, Japanese Utilities and AREVA
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Mastering the tripode enabled building a powerful recycling industry
X Optimized waste conditioning Volume 5, Toxicity 10 X Prepares for GEN IV
X Up to 25% uranium savings X Energy security X Flexibility in repository timing
X Optimized waste conditioning Standardized waste forms No IAEA safeguards X Interim stored in a stable form
NUCLEAR IS A RECYCLABLE ENERGY : lets partner for it
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