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Major player in nuclear fuel cycle products and services, from mining to dismantling, conversion, enrichment, recycling, logistics and engineering.
Orano SA is a multinational nuclear fuel cycle company headquartered in Châtillon, Hauts-de-Seine, France. The company is engaged in uranium mining , conversion-enrichment, spent fuel recycling , nuclear logistics, dismantling , and nuclear cycle engineering activities.
Orano provides expertise throughout the entire decommissioning process for U.S. facilities: planning, program and project management, fuel handling, decontamination, dismantling, waste packaging and transport, and site restoration.
Orano is a leading international group and a key player in the nuclear energy sector. With 17,500 employees worldwide, the group is committed to meeting the world's energy challenges on a daily basis, by helping deliver plentiful, safe, low-carbon and competitive electricity.
Orano Cycle, formerly COGEMA (Compagnie générale des matières nucléaires) and Areva NC, is a French nuclear fuel company. It is the main subsidiary of Orano S.A. It is an industrial group active in all stages of the uranium fuel cycle, including uranium mining, conversion, enrichment, spent fuel reprocessing, and recycling.
BETHESDA, Md., October 26, 2023 – Orano’s Board of Directors recently approved a $1.8 billion investment to increase the Georges Besse 2 (GB2) facility’s uranium enrichment capacity by 2.5 million separative work units (SWU) representing more than a 30% increase.
Almost 40% of new order intakes concern contracts for natural uranium supply and enrichment and conversion services in the United States, Europe. Contracts for the return of German waste for more than €1 bn, settling all of the commitments made in the past for waste from German utilities and Asia.
