Areva - Reference Document 2016

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BUSINESS OVERVIEW

6.4 Operations

These trainees will be the future operators of the J-MOX fabrication plant under construction at the Rokkasho-Mura site in northern Japan. Concerning safety, the site continued to set up action plans defined following the post-Fukushima supplementary safety assessments in the areas of personnel training, remediation equipment and a new emergency management organization. AREVA TEMIS AREVA Temis develops and offers a selection of technical skills and know-how for all high added-value projects in the nuclear, aeronautic and defense industries. In particular, the company provides automated systems, designs and manufactures mechanical equipment in specialty metals, and produces fiber-reinforced concrete containers. AREVA Temis is based at five sites located near the AREVA la Hague and AREVA MELOX production sites. In 2016, AREVA Temis continued its initiative to strengthen marketing and sales outside of AREVA’s subsidiaries, in particular with the development of a robotic offering for remote intervention in hostile environments where human intervention is not possible. Market and competitive position The world market for used fuel recycling is tightly controlled by strict technical and regulatory requirements. The market’s main features are: p demanding nuclear safety, emissions and environmental impact requirements; p a concentrated industry with a limited number of suppliers of recycling services;

p the organization and execution of nuclear materials and waste shipments and, as needed, the management of the logistics chain, including that of the related equipment fleet. It works both in the front end and the back end of the nuclear fuel cycle for industry as well as for research reactors and laboratories. It is also tasked with the supervision of the transportation operations of the AREVA group and of its customers, and with ensuring that they are carried out according to the highest level of safety. The Nuclear Logistics business also supplies dry storage solutions, nuclear fuel storage racks for power plant cooling pools, and neutron shielding systems for reactors. Operations and highlights In the front end of the nuclear fuel cycle and in a tight market, AREVA TN consolidated new sea shipping lanes to China and continued to offer even more optimized sea solutions to its customers. In the waste market, the Nuclear Logistics business strengthened its position by kicking off the development of a new cask called the TN ® MW to serve the nuclear power plant dismantling market. This cask gives operators the possibility of containing a wide variety of waste while combining the storage, shipment and disposal functions in a single solution. In the back end of the cycle, 2016 saw the signature of the used fuel treatment and recycling contract for the 2016-2023 period by AREVA NC and EDF. All of the shipments under this contract are carried out by AREVA TN. This involves shipping used fuel from the nuclear power plants to the AREVA la Hague site, and shipping fresh MOX fuel fabricated at the AREVA MELOX plant. As part of this contract, EDF gave AREVA NC an order for 22 TN ® G3 casks to be manufactured by AREVA TN. The TN ® G3 cask is a next-generation cask which will ultimately replace the current TN ® 12 and TN ® 13 casks. Also in 2016, Japan’s reactors were gradually returned to service, reinforcing assumptions of MOX fuel shipments to that country in the coming years. In the storage field in Europe, the first TN ® 24E cask was loaded in 2016 at the Isar power plant in Germany operated by Preussenelektra. In addition, Synatom once again turned to AREVA TN with the signature of a contract to develop and manufacture 30 TN ® 24 casks for the Doel and Tihange power plants. This contract includes an option to deliver additional casks. AREVA TN had several commercial successes with the signature of NUHOMS ® cask supply contracts for the on-site storage of used fuel, including their startup and loading. It also celebrated the loading of its 1,000 th canister with Exelon, the leading nuclear utility in the United States. Consistent with its industrial strategy for manufacturing integration, AREVA TN inaugurated its new production center for the concrete modules of its casks in Moyock, North Carolina. Production began in February 2016. In 2016, AREVA TN and its Texan partner Waste Control Specialists filed a license application for a consolidated storage center in Texas to receive NUHOMS ® type casks currently stored at shut-down reactors, most of which have been dismantled. In China, the Logistics Business Unit continues its development work with the near-term objective of supplying dry storage solutions.

p a very high level of technological expertise required;

p capital-intensive operations; and p services under multi-year contracts.

Outlook and development goals In 2017, the Recycling business’s objectives are to:

p continue to sell and supply recycling solutions in France and internationally;

p promote recycling technology abroad;

p develop innovative offers to strengthen nuclear and occupational safety in used fuel management; p participate in the creation of appropriate infrastructure for its international partners. 6.4.1.3.2. Nuclear Logistics Businesses The Nuclear Logistics business, known by the trade name of AREVA TN, has two main business lines: p the design of casks and specialized equipment to ship and/or store nuclear materials and waste, and the management of their manufacturing;

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