Client: AREVA NC
Awarding authority: CEA
General contractor: NUVIA Process
Cleaning and dismantling of the used fuel storage canisters
This project reflects NUVIA’s expertise in the overall management of decommissioning projects involving innovative solutions.
Project parties
Project challenges
- Complex deck crane handling operations
- Osbolete ventilation process
- Canisters with different geometries
- Waste at the bottom of the canisters
- Layout modifications in irradiating facilities
- Remote cutting and removal operations cutting and removal
Scope
- Cutting, characterisation, packaging and removal of 120 supports and 94 canisters
- Dismantling of the associated equipment
- Radioactive clean-up of the building’s civil engineering work
Location
Country: France
Site: CEA MARCOULE
Unit: Reactor G1
Building: U G1 reactor warehouse