Nuclear Waste Storage Consulting

Support your nuclear waste storage projects with expert consulting and specialized technical studies services.
    • Design a nuclear waste storage project
    • Secure the design despite limited operating feedback from nuclear waste storage facilities
    • Control all key challenges: safety, economic performance, operational reliability, nuclear logistics, dismantling and decommissioning
    • Effectively manage each strategic step of your storage project
    • Rely on detailed cost analyses to support your investment, operations, and dismantling decisions
    • Control your risks and identify new opportunities
    • Strengthen your safety case by drawing on solid technical expertise 
    • Benefit from our proven experience with similar issues across Orano’s fuel cycle facilities:
      • Control and unloading of road or rail shipments of nuclear packages 
      • Control, handling, packaging, and storage of nuclear waste and nuclear fuel
    Experience in design and operation
    Advice to designer and operator
    • Multidisciplinary team of experts (design, operations, transport, characterization, waste treatment, storage, etc.)
    • Proven nuclear safety standards fully compliant with all international requirements
    • Design and operation of nuclear facilities for several decades
    • Design, licensing, and manufacturing of nuclear waste transport packages
    • Logistics services for nuclear waste (commissioning and transport)
    • Long standing involvement with ANDRA in the development of the Industrial Centre for Geological Disposal project (CIGEO*), since its inception, and many years of direct operational activitiesat the Aube Disposal Facility (CSA**), through operations, radiation protection, and environmental monitoring services
    Feedback from Our Facilities :

    • Treatment of liquid effluents and solid waste, conditioning and storage since 1987 (La Hague, STE3)
    • Conditioning and storage of waste:
      • High level vitrified waste since 1989 (La Hague, EVLH / EEVLH)
      • Intermediate level technological waste since 2002 (La Hague, ACC / ECC)
      • Low level technological waste since 1990 (La Hague, AD2)
    * Facility planned to accommodate the national inventory of HLW and ILW-LL radioactive waste in deep geological formations
     ** Disposal facility for LILW-SL radioactive waste