Carolina Peace - MOX Fuel to Return to Charleston

MOX Fuel to Return to Charleston

Written by Administrator

Friday, 11 March 2005

NUCLEAR NEWS FLASHES - Wednesday, March 9, 2005

--AREVA WILL SEND MOX FUEL ELEMENTS TO THE U.S. "VERY SOON," company Chairman Anne Lauvergeon said yesterday. The four mixed-oxide (MOX) lead test assemblies (LTAs), which incorporate 140 kilograms of U.S. weapons- grade plutonium declared excess to defense needs, were fabricated by Areva subsidiary Cogema at its Melox plant in Marcoule last month after fabrication of fuel rods at the ATPu plant in Cadarache. Cogema officials told Platts that both processes went very well, after initial process adjustments at the Cadarache plant, and that the LTA fabrication is "right on schedule."

The shipment from Melox to La Hague and then to the U.S., where the LTAs will be loaded into Duke Power's Catawba-1 PWR, is expected within a few days, officials said. Areva denied speculation by Greenpeace March 8 that the transport had been delayed until April or June by "production difficulties."

For more information, please contact Tom Clements - Greenpeace International Nuclear Campaigner, + 1 202 415 6158 Yannick Rousselet - Greenpeace France Nuclear Campaigner, +33 685 806 559 Cecilia Goin, Greenpeace International Media Officer, + 31 6 212 96 908

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