transforms nuclear materials so that they can be used to sup- port the development of society, first and foremost in the field of energy.

The group offers products and services with high added value throughout the en- tire cycle, from raw materials to waste treatment. Its activities, from mining to dismantling, as well as in conversion, enrichment, recycling, lo- gistics and engineering, contribute to the production of low carbon electricity.

Orano and its 16,000 employees bring to bear their expertise and their maste- ry of cutting-edge technology, as well as their permanent search for innovation and unwavering dedication to safety, to serve their customers in France and abroad.

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Securing complex projects Securing complex projects of waste management of waste management with with customized and customized and proven solutions proven solutionsBusiness corporation with a Board Directors. Capital of 118,868,750 euros Registered company no.: 330 956 871 – Nanterre Head Office: 125 avenue de Paris - 92320 Châtillon - France Tel: +33 (0)1 34 96 00 00 - Fax: +33 (0)1 34 96 00 01

Energy is our future. Don’t waste it! Your partner for complex waste management projects ✔ Compliance with Waste Acceptance Criteria ✔ Footprint, cost and risks reduction ✔ Solution’s Robustness on the very long term ✔ Comprehensive safety ✔ Operation and Planning Excellence ✔ Efficient Waste management strategy

Whatever the waste’s nature and the project’s com- plexity, nuclear operators aim at securing manage- Securing ment of waste inventories while minimizing risks & volumes to benefit industrial assets. We support your assets complex projects with continuously improving ma- nagement based on 40 years of experience targeting: with optimized • Waste acceptance criteria compliance waste • Volumes and Costs reduction • Robust solutions management • Comprehensive safety • Operation and Planning Excellence

Safety, minimized footprint & costs Proven compact & certifiedconditioning solutions for the very long term Defined management paths up through disposal : a complex balance only achieved by a significant range of expertise. We bring nuclear operators our unique track records on the most complex waste management project with demonstrated benefits.

To reduce your risks, Orano offers an integrated and modular range of solutions for waste, from your D&D projects or from operations. Backed with industrial capabilities, comprehensive expertise and international references with all kinds of nuclear facilities and waste, Orano has built a global offer for the most complex environments on operational excellence. Through continuous engagement, Orano has responsibly applied its solutions, both in terms of cost effectiveness and legacy to future generations, in constant interaction with safety authorities and disposal operators. Orano’s added value in waste management program Characterization Route & WAC Sorting and Retrieval acceptance

Operations Chemical Radiological ILW Global Decommissioning Physical HLW strategy Origin & Nature provider Legacy waste Safe

✔ Safe Reducing ✔ Cost effective Thermal Pre treatment Mechanical waste ✔ & treatment Reliable and robust Chemical quantity Thermal

Storage pending disposal Transport ConditionningMechanical

Cementation Chemical Casks & packages Cementation Technical Vitrification Vitrification solution Casks & Packages provider Disposal Disposal

As a nuclear operator managing As a specialist, waste and provisions, Orano is the from the front end to the back end project owner of D&D and waste ma- 40 Nuclear sites through all transport and conditio- nagement operations in France. They benefit from ning activities, we have combined encompass the entire waste range, Orano waste management focusing specialties into a global and with sharp expertise in the most high-level knowledge base available

hazardous and unusual natures solutions to nuclear operators worldwide. and situations. We bring this global 100% of HLW Orano is one of the pillars of the expertise to your sites. destined for deployment of waste management in Since the beginning of our nuclear underground disposal Orano contributes France with global capabilities ready activities, we have integrated waste Orano manages in France is to solutions for to support you at any step of the management, developed innova- waste management strategy. 13.3 Be tive solutions and helped nuclear conditioned by Orano 50% of waste (80% considering all types of D&D and Waste operators comply with the waste with undefined acceptance criterias (WAC). of waste) . management provisions routes . Worldwide references & capabilities

Vermont Yankee NPP Connecticut Yankee NPP Maine Yankee NPP Millstone NPP Rancho Seco NPP Yankee Rowe NPP Oak Ridge National Laboratory Handford Savannah River

EDF: Brennelis, Bugey NPPs, Superphenix Sodium reactor CEA: , Saclay, Fontenay, UP1 (Marcoule) NorthStar Yankee NPP: Orano: Georges Besse 1, La RPV/RPVI IL/LLW segmentation, Hague, SICN, Miramas, Comurhex, packaging & transport to disposal, SVAFO Research Reactor ISFSI monitoring Forsmark NPP Oskarshamn NPP

Stade NPP Würgassen NPP Gundremmingen NPP Braunschweig Isar NPP Krümmel NPP Central Organization NDA Sellafield Ltd Biblis NPP for Radioactive Dounreay Site Restoration Ltd (DSRL) Philippsburg NPP Waste (COVRA) Magnox NPPs Department of Energy (DoE) CEA Cadarache Pu facility: Brünsbuttel NPP Low Level Waste Repository Ltd Hanford Management of legacy Pu contaminated residues and Neckarwestheim NPP Radioactive Waste Management Ltd Fukushima Tokai Reprocessing HLW retrieval operations tank scraps Mülheim-Kärlich NPP Plant

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Management of Sellafield legacy DoE, Savannah River Remediation Orano La Hague UP2-400 TEPCO, Fukushima: Contaminated waste retrieval operations & water treatment solution, Fuel operations and maintenance of Waste management associated to Trillo NPP process equipment in highly debris retrieval studies, severely 243 HLW tanks located at the DoE D&D program; in situ interim E.On Stade NPP: RPVI ILLW Enresa ATC radioactive environment damaged Fuel evacuation complex storage or transport to disposal segmentation and conditioning Field Report: key facts

US Department of Energy Hanford AY-102 TEPCO Fukushima remediation and cleanup Recovery Project (management of legacy operations, Japan waste and retrieval), USA Orano value: Challenge Orano value: customized technology Award-winning delivery A leak was discovered in tank AY-102’s primary liner in one of Hanford’s solutions based on double-walled underground storage tanks, containing radioactive liquid and ahead of schedule and sludge. on budget proven concepts • Engineering support for New Critical requirements: • Construction 17 days ahead of schedule despite Lateral Opening (NLO) estimated 12% chance of success • Retrieval of highly toxic and • Remotely operated waste retrieval • System design for secondary from early Monte Carlo analysis. radioactive liquid and sludge and transfer system waste to access corium • Engineering • Unprecedented execution • Full-scale model of the solution • Procurement timeframe for demonstration • Engineering and procurement Benefits: of used fuel casks for the removal • 97% of the AY-102 waste of potentially contaminated removed, totalling more than assemblies. 725,000 total gallons Challenge • 590,000 gallons of supernate The cleanup and remediation at Fukushima Daiichi requires first-of-a-kind Benefits: • Studies, probes and tests • 135,000 gallons of sludge and diversified operations with a large range of waste in a constrained en- vironment. of a corium sampling solution • 0 lost time accidents Among critical requirements regarding waste retrieval, treatment and condi- • Effluent vacuum of the • 9,000 activities performed tioning: pieces of concrete and steel • Engineering for waste access and evacuation (corium and used fuel) • Immersive interface solution, providing the customer with • Innovative technologies to address complex and unique situations a virtual reality headset • Project execution in coordination with key partners, pre-loaded with the 360° video such as Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) • Safe and efficient solution by utilizing MX6 casks, originally designed for the transport of fresh MOX Fuels. Field Report: key facts

Waste management Program for dismant- CEA Marcoule (UC3) ling the Redundant Active Handling Facility Special waste management, France (RAHF) at Sellafield, United Kingdom

Challenge Benefits: UP1 former Fuel Reprocessing Plant: Decommissioning of a Cementation • Mobile unit : unit (UCC3) LLW and ILW-SL stored in 16 vaults. - Mobility, modularity All types of waste, from metallic parts of pumps to small pieces of - System directly plugged Uranium and a high percentage of Magnesium waste. in the workshop cell Critical requirements: • Dedicated robotic arm: • Retrieval from vaults to drums – no direct human intervention possible - Operator’s safety • Sorting and measurement - Eased and shortened • Specific treatment and packaging for Magnesium maintenance: the arm can be replaced in case of issue Orano value : Integrate a modular solution • 1,500 tons of radioactive waste for post-retrieval treatment into the existing removed, sorted and packaged building in 400 or 800-liter drums • Preliminary design: Process and hot cells in extisting building and limited space • Specific equipment customized for nuclear environment: robotic arm, Challenge shredder and briquetting machine, sorting device Orano value: The Redundant Active Handling Facility (RAHF), also known as B14 had to be dismantled. This facility was used for the treatment of used fuels with about Lessons Learned 100 workshops and hot cells, with radioactivity up to 300 mSv/h. from Experience Critical requirements: (LFE) gained from • Waste characterization, investigations and route definition past projects • Evacuation of a significant number of hot cells with unknow waste stored inside • Optimized scenario definition, strategy and associated costs and planning up to NDA approval

• Design and first operational steps

Benefits: • Orano’s macro decommissioning scenario tool, LEOPARD to provide outputs such as cell data sheets and inventories • Baseline scenario definition based on waste quantity and type Field Report: key facts

CEA Marcoule Legacy waste evacuation Enresa centralized storage installation ATC, (ERCF), France design studies, Spain

Challenge Orano value: Challenge Enresa responsible for dismantling and waste management in Spain in- Preliminary studies Legacy waste stored in dedicated tends to design and build a facility for the long-term storage of used fuel and and Design casemates (ERFB). Drums deteriora- special residues.. ting over the years. • Unloading hot cell with hot cell Critical requirements: with 20 years operation as LFE Critical requirements: • Building for temporary cask storage • Cask Maintenance Facility, with • Remove of drums from • 6700 tHM coming from Spain reactors, 20 years operation as LFE casemates to intermediate casemate (ERFB-bis) • Lifetime design for 100 Years, • Vault storage passively cooled for vitrified waste, with 15 years • Sorting and characterization • Modular flexible vault and passive cooling concept operation as LFE • Specific treatment and conditio- • Examinatory and research ning in adapted packages to be • Spent fuel storage with retrievability laboratory, with 25 years defined operation as LFE. Benefits: Orano value: overall strategy development, design and implementation • Engineering benefiting from 40 years of used spent fuel management. • Design adapted to retrievability storage of 20 000 assemblies from BWR’s and PWR’s. Benefits: • Design benefitting from 20 years of operation. • Design of a customized trolley • 4,600 bituminous mix drums retrieved since 2007 • 600 salting out drums retrieved

0 Waste management strategy 4 Conditioning: cementation & other 1 Retrieval design & manufacturing processes 2 Characterization strategy & system 5 Waste package manufacturing 3 Treatment: characterization, 6 Interim Storage facility sorting & repacking 7 Transfer and logistic Operational excellence driven by innovative and proven technologies

Characterization & Investigation modules designed Remote Operated Vehicle (ROV) Sludge retrieval to work in any environment, maximize safety and operational excellence The Challenges The Challenges The Solutions Tailored-made characterization equipment and processes combined with proven experience are key success At La Hague, Orano is planning the factors for operational performance in a waste management project. Decades of field experience have enabled retrieval of radioactive sludge from ROV is a remote-controlled submarine (250kg) with a rotating screw Orano to develop ready-made solutions for your facilities and achieve project success. liquid effluent chemical treatment (Archimedes screw) for de-stratification of the sludge. The diluted Here are some examples: processes (old waste retrieval sludge is then pumped and transferred to an intermediate tank. project). This sludge is currently Tracking the ROV is ensured by LEDs on a buoy and a camera system stored in the silos of the STE2 faci- fitted under the roof of the silo. The tracking system ensures the dri- The Solutions lity (about 10,000 m3). ving and the positioning of the equipment. These sedimented sludge will be The ROV enables the retrieval of old tamped sludge (~600g / l) in remobilized and characterized be- silos with remotely submarine in a complex environment. fore transfer to another facility to ensure conditioning.

ORANEFTM Drones augment operators in Zone 4: MARATM screen for mapping large areas using aug- time saving and reduced costs mented reality: ALARA, quality and simplicity

MANUELA™ 3D radiological and topographical RIANA SC™ radiological mapping of underside of mapping containers

NanoPix™ world smallest Gamma camera RFID application for package tracking: safety, tracea- (8x5x4.5 cm) for tiny areas bility and performance Operational excellence driven by innovative and proven technologies

Modular In-Can Vitrification Process: Dem’n’Melt AZURo Automated cutting of reactor pressure vessel internals using underwater robot technology

The Challenges As Intermediate and High-Level waste result from remediation and D&D operations, specific solutions must be The Solutions developed in accordance to the final disposal requirements. Orano and its partner have de- Isolation and containment solutions for the waste must be designed for the very long term combined with vo- veloped, qualified, tested and lume minimization to ensure the best balance. operated an underwater system that has proven its excellence through several D&D projects in Germany and in the United The Solutions States. Significant benefits: The Dem’n’Melt project is a partnership between Orano, CEA, ECM tech- nologies and Andra, the French disposal agency, leveraging their expertise • Reduced dose rate from decades of experience in waste vitrification. for personnel (ALARA) • High flexibility and easy Significant benefits: handling of a modern • Compact enough to be implemented in a decommissioned industrial robot cell or close to the waste to be treated The Challenges • High reliability of an • Requiring low investment and operation costs When plants are dismantled, the cutting and packaging of industrial robot • Canister used as the melter: no pouring device and no corrosion issue the reactor pressure vessel takes place underwater for radiological rea- • Accelerated performance • Heated by a simple and robust resistance furnace sons. This work largely involves frequently repetitive routine activities, • High quality standard by yet requiring flexibility and modularity. Robotics offers significant bene- • Offering a great homogeneity to the melted mixture standardized and automated fits to improve project performance and safety, but requires the combina- • Efficient temperature control and volatility management handling tion of specific expertise in automation systems and nuclear operations. • Highly efficient Off-Gas Treatment System • Reduced cost • Suitable for solid or liquid waste, including zeolites and sludge • Flexible enough to accommodate uncertainties about waste composition • Designed to produce a minimized amount of secondary waste Operational excellence driven by innovative and proven technologies

Robotic arm Short-Lifecycle building for complex Triple-purpose family casks for storage, diversified waste (Silo 130 La Hague reprocessing transport, disposal facility, France) The Challenges Nuclear operators are looking for optimized conditioning solutions to limit the volume of waste, reduce handling The Challenges and reconditioning operations and improve cost efficiency with safe, flexible and even reversible solutions. Solu- Removal of a wide range of legacy and diversified waste inherited tion applicable to complex waste from ILW to HLW for Transport, Storage, and up to final Disposal. from the Gas-Cooled program of the 1960s with the following requirements : • Retrieval and processing operations due to incomplete knowledge of waste specifications. The Solutions • Consideration for chemical interactions with processes’ and conditioning components for storage and transfer Using 50+ years of experience in package design and regulatory ap- operations. proval, Orano has developed the “All-in-One” TN® MW family. Accom- • High flexibility margin as the disposal routes are modating various waste types such as metallic-activated and legacy incompletely defined. waste, sludge, resins, fissile materials with the best combination of waste form and container. Different formats designed for : The Solutions • ILW and HLW 1. Robotic retrieval arm • IP-2 to B Type Transport license To minimize the retrieval operational planning and optimize wor- • Modularity, compactness & flexibility kers’ safety, Orano and its industrial partners have designed a de- With a large range of services dicated robotic arm based on analyzing the waste nature, volume and significant benefits: and specifications. • Loading/unloading 2. Short-Lifecycle treatment and conditioning building Retrieval • Transport The project required the construction of a new facility. Orano deve- • Drying system loped a specific design out of a lightweight fabric structure, instead • Monitoring of using traditional solid construction. • Virtual reality training Significant benefits: This solution minimizes the time and costs of construction as well as the final dismantling cost of the facility and associated seconda- Transfer ry waste.

Treatment and conditioning