Design, develop, and commission a storage facility
Drawing on 50 years of experience, Orano offers its customers unique expertise for optimised design and operating of dry or wet storage facilities for nuclear materials and waste that meet their current or future needs.
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From operating situation to dismantling issues, nuclear facilities produce radioactive materials and wastes which must be managed with long term issues.
In this scheme, interim disposal facilities are a key part of radioactive materials and waste management cycle.
These facilities must meet security, safety needs and different criteria essential for operations (HVAC, handling, maintenance, nuclear safety) taking into account cost challenge. These considerations make the design complex.
Orano propose a turnkey solution to deliver an interim storage facility taking into account different steps of the project:
- Design the facility,
- Draft and defend safety files with regard to authorities,
- Build the facility,
- Commission the facility.
The facilities are custom designed and suited to the needs particularly considering the lifetime of the facility.
Orano can also support one or several steps of the project.
- Multidisciplinary team involving all expertise needed to design and deliver an interim storage facility
- Complete solution from the design to the commissioning
- Custom solution adapted to the needs
- Cost and time optimization
Orano’s expertise in storage facilities for nuclear materials and waste extends from design to commissioning and operating facilities and takes account of the experience feedback in numerous operating situations.
The stand-out projects include:
- At La Hague:
- Spent fuel storage pools
- Storage of high-level and long-lived intermediate-level waste (HLW and ILW-LL) pending a definitive disposal solution (since 1990 up to the present)
- Intermediary storage solutions for dismantling waste
- At Marcoule: Polyvalent intermediary storage for bituminous waste in drums (EIP, 2000),
- In the Netherlands: Vitrified HLW and ILW-LL storage (COVRA-HABOG, 2010),
- In Spain: Vitrified waste and spent fuel storage (ATC, in the design phase).
- A complete service: From the first design steps until active commissioning
- Risk minimisation taking into account Orano’s experience feedback in France and abroad
- Turnkey conception taking into account every needed criteria
- Optimised costs
