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France / Cruas-2 Restarts With Core Consisting Entirely Of Recycled Uranium

By David Dalton
28 February 2024

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Cruas-2 Restarts With Core Consisting Entirely Of Recycled Uranium
In France, only the four units at Cruas are certified to use enriched reprocessed uranium. Courtesy Wikimedia Commons.
Unit 2 at the Cruas nuclear power station in France has been restarted with its first load of entirely recycled uranium fuel, marking “an historic milestone for the relaunch of the uranium reprocessing sector”.

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