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France / Regulator Rethinks Warning On Nuclear Fuel Storage Pools Being Full By 2040

By Rumyana Vakarelska
18 April 2024

ASN had earlier warned of ‘serious consequences’, including reactor shutdowns

Regulator Rethinks Warning On Nuclear Fuel Storage Pools Being Full By 2040
A used fuel storage pool at La Hague in northern France. Courtesy Orano/Cyril Crespeau.
France’s nuclear regulator ASN has said a danger that it had previously warned of, that the largest spent nuclear fuel storage pool in France, at nuclear fuel cycle company Orano’s La Hague complex in Normandy, could be full by 2040, was now less likely.

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