French nuclear power company Framatome has inaugurated a new facility dedicated to the fabrication of fuel for research reactors and targets for medical radioisotopes.
The new facility, in Romans-sur-Isère in southern France, is for CERCA, a division of Framatome that manufactures fuel for research reactors, and irradiation targets.
It includes workshops organised around a “uranium zone” where compacted powder is produced to form fuel elements and medical-use targets.