Orano TN, the nuclear logistics subsidiary of the company formerly known as AREVA, said Wednesday it had secured a contract worth tens of millions of dollars for used nuclear fuel dry storage operations with a U.S. utility.
An Orano press release did not identify the customer, which requested confidentiality. The company also did not release the exact value of the contract.
The contract covers 2018 to 2025. In that period, Orano TN will provide “pool to pad” operations for all nuclear reactors operated by the client. That covers moving used fuel from cooling pools into Orano’s NUHOMS storage systems on-site at the nuclear plants.
“We are honored to continue our long-term partnership with our customer both in the dry storage of used fuel and in the associated services we offer,” Orano TN Senior Executive Vice President Frédéric de Agostini said in the release. “The unique experience of our teams and their close relationship with the customer have allowed us to offer a safe and competitive solution to manage its used fuel.”
Orano is the nuclear fuel cycle company that was called New AREVA until January. The company is the result of a corporate restructuring French nuclear giant AREVA began in 2016 that led to the sale of the company’s nuclear power business to French utility EDF and other entities. What was left is now largely Orano: nuclear materials development and waste management, encompassing mining, conversion-enrichment, used fuel recycling, nuclear logistics, dismantlement, and engineering.
