AREVA group

In December 2006, Westinghouse, a major maker of nuclear power plants (and owned by Toshiba in Japan), announced a multi-billion dollar deal to sell four new nuclear plants to China. The deal, worth about 5 billion, includes work to be performed by U.S. engineering giant Shaw Group, Inc. AREVA Group also has a deal with China for two reactors and approximately 20 years worth of atomic fuel. Thanks to the nuclear efforts in China and other countries in the Far East, more than 20,000 megawatts of nuclear capacity have come online globally since 2000. 

AMERICAN AIR LIQUIDE HOLDINGS INC AMERICAN POWER CONVERSION CORP AMERICAN SUPERCONDUCTOR CORP APPLIED MATERIALS INC ARCHER DANIELS MIDLAND CO AREVA GROUP... 

ALSTOM Levallois-Perret AREVA GROUP Paris... 

RM Consultants, Ltd. AREVA GROUP Rochester Gas and Electric Corp IBERDROLA SA Rockwell Collins Display Systems NANOSYS INC Rocky Mountain Power, PACIFICORP Roky Operating LLC MESA ENERGY INC Roscoe Wind Farm AIRTRICITY... 

Apart from nuclear applications in control rods, hafuium is produced for specific uses (microelectronic, super alloys). It is a byproduct of zirconium (about 2% in namral ores). Estimates are that the two main hafnium producers, ATI Wah Chang (USA) and CEZUS (AREVA group, France), produce around 40 and 30 tons of the... 

The Boston Consulting Group. 2006. Economic assessment of used nuclear fuel management in the United States. July 2006. This report was prepared for AREVA. http // www.bcg.com/publications/files/2116202EconomicAssessmentReport24Jul0SR.pdf. 

In order to address these important issues the panel of speakers in this session gathered a group of distinguished representatives of varied organisations involved in such analyses industry (Entergy, AREVA), national laboratories (FZJ, DOE/INL-ANL, CEA) and universities (Stanford, MIT, TIT). 

In mid-2006, a report by the Boston Consulting Group (Peters et al., 2006) for AREVA and based on proprietary AREVA information showed that recycling used fuel in the United States using the COEX aqueous process would be economically competitive with direct disposal of used fuel. A 12 billion, 2500 t yr plant was considered, with total capital expenditure of 16 billion for all related aspects. This would have the benefit of greatly reducing demand on space of a repository with a capacity of 70,000 MTHM. 

Areva NP [formerly Compa-gnie Europdenne de Zirconium Ugine Sandvic or CEZUS (Framatome group)] Moscow Polymetal Wah Chang... 

GT-MHR General Atomics initially, international group includes OKBM Africanov, Areva, Fuji 288 MWei modular direct-cycle helium-cooled reactor, developed in the late 1980s and during the 1990s. Under development Under development not ready for deployment in the United States. Prototype is in operation in Japan... 

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