From the uranium mine to the reprocessing of nuclear waste.
Orano, the little heir to the great Areva, a specialist in the fuel cycle of nuclear power plants, is starting to take his head out of the water.
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Admittedly, with 3.7 billion euros of turnover achieved in 2020, the group weighs less than half of the historical Areva.
But he has been a beneficiary since 2019. And its managing director, Philippe Knoche, is on the way to making people forget Areva's heckled past.
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That of failed bets in ultimately unusable uranium mines when many predicted soaring ore prices - that was before Fukushima.
The costly slippages of the construction site of its Finnish EPR.
The abysmal losses of nearly 5 billion euros in 2014.
To restore order in the group, the French state decided in mid-2015 to split the activities into three.
EDF had to recover the plant manufacturer who was going through a bad patch, Areva NP, renamed Framatome.
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