ROBATEL Industries - Nuclear solutions provider since 1953. Hot lab solutions

ROBATEL is a major actor in the French Nuclear Industry since the 1950s, with a clear focus on international development as a driver of new growth for the group. It is present in France with four ROBATEL Industries sites (Genas, La Hague, Cadarache, Marcoule) and in the USA with Robatel Technologies (Roanoke, VA). ROBATEL develops, licenses, manufactures and maintains transportation and storage casks for radioactive wastes/sources, spent fuels; LLW, ILW and HLW. We also provide custom design and fabrication of equipped Glove Boxes, Hot Cells, Shield Doors and Hatches for the nuclear industry and nuclear medicine. Adding to these products a long experience in the back end, we thus supply waste management lines, including sorting, cementation, incineration, repackaging. This activity makes of ROBATEL a major supplier for the MOX and MELOX plants (France). These activities have lead ROBATEL to develop neutron and thermal shield compounds and shock absorbing foam that are now used around the world: PNT3™, PNT7™, Compound 9™, Compound 10™, Compound 21™, Compound 22™, FENOSOL™. The following article will focus on presenting our hot cells and type B casks for Research Reactor Spent Fuels capabilities and recent solutions that have been implemented. (author)