French nuclear giant Areva temporarily shuts down 2 uranium plants in wake of Fukushima

Published: September 15th, 2011 at 4:36 pm ET
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manes

September 15, 2011 at 4:56 pm

Areva was processing uranium in Lynchburg, Virginia, but in February moved that over to their uranium processing plant in Richland, Washington. Why do they choose the most beautiful areas?

http://www2.newsadvance.com/business/2011/feb/28/areva-ends-fuel-manufacturing-area-ar-873836/

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red red wine

September 15, 2011 at 5:47 pm

“”Why do they choose the most beautiful areas?”"

Best to ask Ahhnold…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=weQDA0HNJiE&NR=1

Party like its 1999 folks

theypoisonus

September 15, 2011 at 5:57 pm

Apparently AREVA stuff just plain don’t woik ! lol
I just read over at EX-SKF where tempco is dumping the AREVA water decomtaminator for the SARRY one ( toshiba/shaw )

Seems it was not performing up to snuff. Of course SARRY has had it’s ‘moments’ also, but it’s the star right now..
Plan A ( when that doesn’t work )
Plan B (when that doens’t work P
Plan A

and so it goes.
PEACH OUT ! lol

sorry I missed ya’ll on the ‘love fest’ at the other board.
I can’t believe some silly with a sense of humor actually got a peachpeace moniker. If it weren’t for a little joking around here occassionally, it would be like a dam morgue.

humor and smiles and laughs are good meds !!

anne

September 15, 2011 at 10:20 pm

“TEPCO press release Aug. 20th. Toshiba’s SARRY decontamination system, which has been plagued with problems, seems now to be working smoothly, tho not up to par: the decontamination factor is 50,000 (5 “man”), whereas the target is 1 million. It processes 25 tons/hour. By combining it with America’s (Kurion?) and France’s (AREVA) decontamination units, they [...]”
http://www.sheffnersweb.net/blogs/accuratemaps/tag/ex-skf/
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bincbom

September 15, 2011 at 9:55 pm

HEEYYY.. this is great news! It looks like DEMAND for nuclear fuel is being significantly impacted.

This is an important first step toward sunsetting the people-killing enterprise of “nuclear power”.

arclight

September 15, 2011 at 10:16 pm

@bincbom
there is still hundreds of billions of euro investment tied up in this industry…not to mention the public and more recent private monies! but the industry isnt looking like such a good bet!!
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September 15, 2011 at 11:54 pm

“Sixty-two percent of French people want a “progressive halt” to the country’s nuclear energy program in the next 25 or 30 years, while 15 percent want a rapid withdrawal, according to an Ifop opinion poll published in June.”

“Socialist Francois Hollande, who polls indicate is a leading contender against Sarkozy, has said France should reduce its dependence on nuclear power. Sarkozy, meanwhile, has thrown his support behind future investment in the industry.”

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-09-15/france-opens-doors-to-nuclear-sites-to-woo-public-post-fukushima.html

arclight

September 16, 2011 at 3:04 pm

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Accident of September 12, 2011 on the site of CENTRACO in Marcoule (Gard)
Note n°6 of the 16/09/11 16:00

“These statements indeed indicated values of background radiation 3 to 8 times higher than the natural background noise, between 14:00 and 17:40, in the south of the site of Marcoule, with a East-West extension of approximately 140 km. This information raised the question of a bond with the dramatic accident which has occurred at the end of the morning of September 12 about the installation CENTRACO which company SOCODEI exploits on the nuclear site of Marcoule. CENTRACO is an installation of treatment of waste slightly radioactive by fusion and incineration.”
“there no were certainly massive rejections of radioactivity at the time of the accident on site CENTRACO, on the other hand one cannot still conclude that there was no radioactive rejection. Indeed official press releases raise more actions of communication than of information in measurement, for example, where 4 days after the accident, it still specify the quantity and the nature of the radionuclides present in the installation and the metal which was in the furnace at the time of the explosion, neither results of the control of the rejections in chimney of the installation, nor the volume activity of the air in and to the immediate vicinity of the installation.”