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Enrichment plant · France

Georges Besse II Enrichment Plant

One of the four large commercial enrichment complexes worldwide.

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RefiningEnrichment plant

What happens here

Centrifuge enrichment raises uranium-235 from 0.7% to 3-5% for power reactors. The technology is dual-use and therefore among the most tightly controlled in industry.

In and out

Goes in

Uranium

Comes out

Outputs for this site are not itemised in the atlas.

Operator

Orano

A French state-controlled nuclear fuel-cycle company covering mining, conversion, enrichment and recycling.

Refiner

Journeys that pass through this plant

Kazakh uranium to a fuel assembly in a reactor The most tightly watched journey in this atlas: every kilogram is accounted for, at every border.

Chains that pass through here

Uranium to Electricity

Yellow powder to a fuel pellet the size of a fingertip that holds as much energy as a tonne of coal.

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Georges Besse II Enrichment Plant

What happens here

In and out

Operator

Orano

Journeys that pass through this plant

Chains that pass through here

Uranium to Electricity

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