French uranium mining and nuclear fuel group Orano, formerly called Areva, said it had signed a fuel reprocessing deal with Ukraine. Orano and the Ukrainian utility EnergoAtom signed a contract for assessing the feasibility of reprocessing services of spent fuel assemblies of Ukrainian VVER-1000 nuclear reactors in Orano la Hague facility Orano said the contract, signed in the presence of Oleksander Shavlakov, First Vice-President of EnergoAtom and Pascal Aubret, Senior Executive Vice President of Orano’s Recycling Business Unit, marks a new step towards the treatment of Ukrainian used fuels VVER 1000 at the Orano la Hague site.
Reuters 3rd May 2018 read more »