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Joint Assessment: Plutonium Transports in France : Safety and Security Concerns over the FS47 Transportation Cask (2004)
| Author | WISE Paris, Large & Associates |
| Date | September 2004 |
| Classification | 6.01.8.05/29 (TRANSPORTS - SAFETY / TECHNOLOGY (CONTAINERS/SHIPS/ETC)) |
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From the publication:
BACKGROUND Consignments of reactor-grade plutonium dioxide (PuO2) separated at the COGEMA fuel reprocessing works at la Hague have and continue to be regularly transported overland to the MOX fuel fabrication plants at Cadarache and Marcoule in southern France. This involves a journey of about 800 km on the public road network with the plutonium being carried in sealed transportation casks designated FS47. Typically, nine to ten FS47 transportation casks are carried in each of two vehicles, with each individual cask holding approximately 15 kg PuO2 (in total 280 to 300 kg per two vehicle convoy). On average and throughout the year, about 45 such journeys are undertaken every 8 or so days with the total amount of plutonium transported being around 12 tonnes per annum.
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