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Orano dismantles France’s Ulysse research reactor

June 25, 2020, 11:38AMRadwaste Solutions

The Ulysse reactor before dismantling. Photo: Orano

A five-year project to dismantle the Ulysse experimental nuclear reactor at the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission’s (CEA) Saclay nuclear research site near Paris has been completed, according to an Orano press release on June 22. Orano was contracted to decommission the low-power research and training reactor.

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Orano dismantles France’s Ulysse research reactor

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