Transportation of Vitrified Residues With the TN 28 VT Cask

At the La Hague reprocessing plant, the high activity fission products and long lived actinides separated from Pu and U as re-usable materials are conditioned in a glass matrix. These conditioned wastes, called vitrified residues, are internationally recognized as the optimal conditioning for final disposal by COGEMA customers and their respective Authorities. The reprocessing contracts stipulate that COGEMA's foreign customers have the responsibility for storage and disposal of such residues. On this basis, vitrified residues have to be transported from the La Hague plant to a storage facility specially designed by the customers. Up to now, the first transport of vitrified residues to Japan was carried out last February, while transports to Germany and Belgium are under preparation.