Orano Cycle

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Orano Cycle
Company typePublic
IndustryNuclear
Founded1976
Headquarters
Paris
,
France
Area served
France
Key people
  • Jean-Jacques Dreher (CEO)
WebsiteOrano.group

Orano Cycle, formerly COGEMA (Compagnie générale des matières nucléaires) and Areva NC, is a French nuclear fuel company. It is the main subsidiary of Orano S.A. It is an industrial group active in all stages of the uranium fuel cycle, including uranium mining, conversion, enrichment, spent fuel reprocessing, and recycling.[1][2]

The company was originally created in 1976. In 2001, it became part of Areva; its name was changed to Areva NC in March 2006.[3][4] As a result of restructuring of Areva, Areva NC became part of Orano and changed its name to Orano Cycle.

  1. ^ Cogema Archived 1 February 2008 at the Wayback Machine, Anti-Nuclear Alliance of Western Australia. Accessed on line 23 December 2007.
  2. ^ France and Nuclear Energy Archived 16 October 2007 at the Wayback Machine, §2, The French Desire for Uranium, Nicholas Pederson, ACDIS occasional paper. Accessed on line 23 December 2007.
  3. ^ AREVA : un avenir à préparer[permanent dead link], Direction Générale de l'Énergie et des Matières Premières, 16 April 2002. Accessed on line 23 December 2007.
  4. ^ COGEMA becomes AREVA NC, history, Areva. Accessed on line 23 December 2007.