And after 2040?
It is to answer this crucial question that Orano, the French uranium specialist, has launched into two new activities: battery recycling and medicine.
A diversification imagined in 2018, in light of the closure of the Fessenheim power plant, then possibly subsequent ones.
The current model of the nuclear industry was designed to operate until the end of the next decade.
A perfect match with the political will of the early 2010s, tinged with anti-nuclear, which condemned this technology to vilification.
To survive, Orano had to think about other areas of activity, far from its core business which consists of supplying and reprocessing the fuel used in nuclear power plants.
Great prospects
“The recycling of metals which make up batteries, electrodes, anodes… is a profession close to our expertise in hydrometallurgy or even powder chemistry
”, explained Nicolas Maes, the general director of Orano…
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