Dismantling a nuclear installation: how?

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Dismantling a nuclear installation: how?




by jonule » 20/06/08, 10:48

CEA CADARACHE
TWO NUCLEAR FACILITY DISMANTLING PROJECTS
SUBJECT TO PUBLIC INQUIRY

FROM JUNE 9 TO JULY 9, 2008

GO TO TOWN HALL TO EXPRESS YOUR FEARS!


From June 9 to July 9, two projects to dismantle CEA Cadarache nuclear installations are subject to public inquiry.

These are two BNIs (Basic Nuclear Installation), BNI 32 and BNI 54, two industrial installations operated by AREVA and having handled a large quantity of plutonium during their operation:

· The Plutonium Technology Workshop (ATPu), a plant which, during its 40 years of operation, has treated 50 tonnes of plutonium and manufactured 500 tonnes of uranium and plutonium oxide pellets. This high-risk facility, whose closure requested in 1995 by the Nuclear Safety Authority (ASN) for non-compliance with seismic standards, finally took place in July 2003! … ..But 140 kg of American plutonium arrived there in September 2004 for the manufacture of four MOX fuel assemblies for the United States !!

· The Chemical Purification Laboratory (LPC) was responsible for quality control of ATPu production and the treatment and conditioning of manufacturing waste.


The clean-up and dismantling operations of these factories will be high-risk work despite the words of AREVA, which is the operator, assuring that "the health and environmental impacts will remain insignificant and that the dosimetry of the workers" will be maintained. as low as reasonably possible and below the authorized annual limit '

It would be desirable for any dismantling of a nuclear installation to be preceded by a public debate. Should we dismantle quickly, offline, or choose confinement? What will be the immediate and long-term impact on health, what is the estimate of the dosimetry received? What means of controls independent of the nuclear operator will be defined? Are epidemiological studies planned? What will become of radioactive waste? etc ...

In addition, we would like to remind you that the Cadarache site is located on the Aix-en-Provence - Durance fault, the most active in France and close to another, that of Trévaresse, which generated the most serious earthquake ever recorded. in France a century ago.
It does not make sense to have placed such a large number of nuclear installations and radioactive waste storage buildings in such an active seismic zone.

It is the entire nuclear center of Cadarache that it is urgent to clean up and denuclearize in order to transform it into a research center on renewable energies, which are the only real energies of the future.

We therefore invite you to go to the town halls concerned or to write to the President of the Commission of Inquiry (Town Hall, Place du Commandant Jean Santini 13115 St Paul Lez Durance) to express all your fears and questions.

For more information (works, town halls concerned, timetables, etc.):
http://www-cad.cea.fr/fr/actualite/pdf/ ... quette.pdf
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