Area of Potential Damage in the Case of an Impact on One of the La Hague Storage Pools

Area of potential damage in the case of an impact on one of the La Hague storage pools

Above: the La Hague nuclear reprocessing installation and its irradiated fuel storage pools (framed). Opposite: Main area (in orange) of potential damage on buildings and equipment, in the case of a Boeing 767 crash on pool E (assessment method used by the US NRC).

Installations: NPH, T0: Spent fuel storage reception / pools. R1-T1: Shearing/dissolution facilities (head ends). T2: Fission product separation/concentration plants. T7: Vitrification plant. Pools D, E, CA: Spent fuel storage pools.

Source : WISE-Paris, according to www.cogemalahague.fr, NRC 2000

Presentation of the Sellafield reprocessing facilities

Sea Discharge B302 & B302.1 Pipelines Plutonium Main Gate stores B205 Magnox N Reprocessing B204. Old Reprocessing Railway Plant Ssidings

B33 MOX Demonstration Facility

Windscale Piles

EARP Waste Treatment Complex

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Calder Hall Magnox Reactors 1-4 B570 THORP B311 Fuel Handling Plant B355 Waste B572 Encapsulation Vitrificcation plants MOX Plant Plant

Source : BNFL Area of potential damage in the case of an impact on Sellafield B215 liquid high level waste storage

Source: WISE-Paris according to NRC 20001, based on a map transmitted by BNFL

1 US NRC, « Study of Spent Fuel Pool Accident Risk at Decommissioning Nuclear Power Plants », October 2000. Transports of German Plutonium in France

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