Areva NC
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Areva NC, formerly Cogema (Compagnie générale des matières nucléaires, name changed in march 2006), a French company created in 1976 as a wholly owned subsidiary of the AREVA group, is an industrial group active in uranium mining, conversion and enrichment through spent fuel reprocessing and recycling. Cogéma is present in France and COGEMA and its subsidiaries are active in more than 30 countries. It employs approximately 19 000 worldwide.
The COGEMA La Hague site, located on the western tip of the Cotentin Peninsula in Normandy, reprocesses spent power reactor fuel to recycle reusable energy materials-uranium and plutonium - and to condition the waste into suitable final form.
COGEMA has uranium reserves in Niger, Canada, Australia and Kazakhstan. The last mine operated in France, La Société des Mines de Jouac, closed in 2001 when its reserves ran out. Now COGEMA operates uranium mines only in Niger and Canada. It also conducts exploration, primarily in Canada, Niger and central Asia, to strengthen its position and replenish its worldwide reserves.
[edit] See also
- Eurodif program
- Marcoule, a site shared by Areva NC and the Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique (CEA) nuclear organization
