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2. Fuel description
2.1 Constituents UO2 and PuO2
PuO 2 powder comes from the irradiated fuel processing plant, where it is packaged in sealed cans, each containing around 3 kg of powder. It is fully characterized, physically, chemically and isotopically.
The UO 2 powders used to date are all wet-processed from depleted or natural uranium U 3 O 8 . Two processes are used:
"AUC" for powders from Siemens (no longer in production) or ABB;
"ADU" for powders produced at Pierrelatte (COGEMA) in the TU2 workshop.
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