2. La Hague plant sustainability process
2.1 History and assessment of La Hague plant operations
The creation of the UP3 (chain A) and UP2 800 processing-recycling plants was authorized by decree on May 12, 1981. The main fuel processing and waste conditioning workshops (figure 1 ) were commissioned at regular intervals between 1986 for the first fuel storage pools and 2001 for the final R4 plutonium processing workshop at UP2-800. With a total of around 34,000 tonnes of fuel from pressurized water reactors (PWRs), the conditioning of...
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Main spent fuel dissolvers in workshops R1 (UP2-800) and T1 (UP3)
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