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• 'Very long term' deals for Areva and CGNPC

  Areva has announced two new agreements with China Guangdong Nuclear Power Company (CGNPC). The Chinese firm will gain supplies of uranium, and the two will start a nuclear engineering joint venture. Posted Oct 07 2008, 01:31 PM by World Nuclear News Filed under: Areva, China Guangdong Nuclear Power Company

• Jordan and Areva sign exploration agreement

  France's Areva has signed an agreement with the Jordan Atomic Energy Commission (JAEC) for joint exploration of uranium in central Jordan. It is thought that drilling could commence next month. Posted Oct 06 2008, 12:11 PM by World Nuclear News Filed under: Areva, jordan

• Areva and others beat loan guarantee deadline

  Areva has submitted an application for a US government loan guarantee for its proposed Eagle Rock uranium enrichment facility. Would-be reactor builders Duke Energy and PPL also managed to get their applications in by the 29 September deadline. Posted Sep 30 2008, 10:50 AM by World Nuclear News Filed under: Areva, loan guarantees

• Areva to put €20 million into Tricastin improvements

  Areva says it will be investing a total of €20 million ($29.6 million) to improve environmental and health monitoring on its Tricastin site and to "settle the balance of its industrial legacy." Posted Aug 29 2008, 10:23 AM by World Nuclear News Filed under: Areva

• Jordan signs uranium agreement

  An agreement on uranium exploration and mining signed by the Jordan Atomic Energy Commission and French nuclear company Areva has been welcomed by the countries' leaders. Posted Aug 28 2008, 10:42 AM by World Nuclear News Filed under: Areva, Uranium, Jordan Atomic Energy Commission

• Areva to 'decaffeinate' ash to remove uranium

  Areva and the University of Idaho have signed an agreement to develop technology - similar to the process used for removing caffeine from coffee beans - for recovering uranium from incinerator ash from Areva's uranium fuel plant in Richland, Washington state. Posted Aug 21 2008, 11:50 AM by World Nuclear News Filed under: Areva, Uranium

• ASN suspends some Socatri operations at Tricastin

  France's nuclear regulator, the ASN, has been informed by Areva NC subsidiary Socatri that it has exceeded its annual limit for releases of carbon-14. ASN has ordered the company to suspend all its activities that generate the long-lived radionuclide until the end of 2008. Posted Aug 07 2008, 11:00 AM by World Nuclear News Filed under: Areva, France

• Areva: no need to repeat MOX trials

  Areva has refuted claims that its MOX nuclear fuel assemblies failed in-core tests essential to the US program to use the fuel, which would be made in part from dismantled nuclear weapons. Posted Aug 06 2008, 12:56 PM by World Nuclear News Filed under: Areva, MOX

• Areva finalises Bakouma

  [Reuters, 2 August] Production at the Bakouma mine in the Central African Republic (CAR) should start in 2010, after the end of difficult negotiations over the uranium deposit. The CAR government had been unhappy about Areva gaining the mining concession with its purchase of UraMin about a year ago. A $43 million deal to realise the mining venture was signed on 1 August by Areva CEO Anne Lauvergeon and CAR President Francois Bozize which would see the country gain 12% of production revenues as well as 1000 new jobs and new health and electricity infrastructure. Lauvergeon said it was a "win-win" deal and that production would peak at around 1200 tonnes of uranium per year in 2012-13. Posted Aug 05 2008, 11:36 AM by World Nuclear News Filed under: Areva

• Areva to supply fuel for Taipower BWRs

  Areva has signed a contract with Taiwan Power Co (Taipower) for the long-term supply fuel assemblies for the Chinshan and Kuosheng nuclear power plants. The deal is worth more than $200 million and covers four reactors for 12 years. Posted Aug 01 2008, 11:36 AM by World Nuclear News Filed under: Areva, Nuclear Fuel, Taiwan Power Co.

• Nuclear build boosts Areva figures

  Construction work at two new nuclear power reactors as well as a MOX nuclear fuel facility helped drive Areva's first-half sales up by 16%. The group now has a backlog reaching almost $60 billion. Posted Jul 25 2008, 08:46 AM by World Nuclear News Filed under: New Nuclear Plants, Areva

• Contracts for new US Areva plants

  Two contracts have been awarded related to new Areva facilities in the USA. One concerns an environmental study of an enrichment plant; the other, detailed engineering of sintering furnaces for a MOX plant. Posted Jul 23 2008, 12:21 PM by World Nuclear News Filed under: Areva, MOX

• ARMZ links with Areva, plans new U plant

  Russian uranium mining company Atomredmetzoloto (ARMZ) has said it intends to set up a joint uranium prospecting and mining venture with French nuclear company Areva. Meanwhile, its Lunnoye subsidiary is to build a new uranium processing plant in Siberia. Posted Jul 22 2008, 12:15 PM by World Nuclear News Filed under: Areva, Uranium, ARMZ

• French uranium employees kidnapped in Niger

  French nuclear company Areva is working with authorities in France and Niger to liberate four of its expatriate employees kidnapped by Tuareg rebels in Niger's Arlit region. Areva confirmed that the four kidnapped employees were in good health and had been able to contact the company. Local press reports have added that the ethnic Tuareg group the Movement of the People of Niger for Justice (MNJ) took the four French employees while they were out jogging in the centre of the town of Arlit, and the group – three men and a woman – include the group's local operations director and a geologist. MNJ has targeted employees of uranium companies before. In 2007 the group kidnapped a Chinese executive from a uranium prospecting company releasing him several days later. A few months earlier, it attacked the Imouraren uranium mine in north Niger, which is operated by Areva. The MNJ claims to be fighting for greater benefits from uranium mining for the inhabitants of northern Niger. Posted Jun 23 2008, 10:45 AM by World Nuclear News Filed under: Areva, Niger

• Areva wins €45 million contract with Eletronuclear

  Areva has been awarded six contracts to provide key services to Eletronuclear, the Brazilian operator of the Angra nuclear power plant. Worth €45 million ($69 million), the contracts focus on Angra 2 and vary in duration from three to five years. The Angra site, near Angra dos Reis, Brazil, currently hosts two pressurized water reactors (PWRs), Angra 1 and 2, with plans for a third under discussion. Angra 2 connected to the grid in 2000. Areva, which already provides services for both Angra units, is contracted to carry out examination and maintenance operations as well as servicing in the field of electrical and control engineering. An extensive, non-destructive examination will be made of steam generators, control rods, and the integrity of the containment. The French company will also carry out comprehensive maintenance operations throughout the site, attending to the cooling pool floor, fuel assemblies, valves, drives pumps and motors. Steam generator cleaning will be carried out at a secondary site with Areva supplying a local support team. Posted Jun 17 2008, 12:14 PM by World Nuclear News Filed under: Areva, Brazil, Angra, Eletronuclear