Decommissioning programs and strategies of basic nuclear installations at COGEMA

In France, a lot of decommissioning projects were initiated over the last past decades permitting the French nuclear industry to acquire a great experience and knowledge in the field of dismantling. It started in the 1970's when the French Atomic Energy Agency (CEA) began to dismantle research and pilot reactors, laboratories and pilot facilities such as AT1, a pilot reprocessing plant for fast breeder spent fuels located in La Hague. The COGEMA group which is world-leader in the nuclear fuel cycle from uranium prospecting to spent fuel reprocessing and recycling (including refining, conversion, enrichment of natural uranium, manufacturing of nuclear fuels and waste conditioning), has already been involved in several nuclear clean-up and decommissioning programs. This presentation is illustrating the main decommissioning programs of COGEMA Basic Nuclear Installations within the nuclear fuel cycle, the associated initial feed back and chosen strategies