Plutonium Pit Production

New AREVA Gets New Name

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French nuclear fuel cycle company New AREVA officially has a new name as of Tuesday: Orano.
Orano is the result of a corporate restructuring AREVA initiated in 2016 that late last year resulted in the sale of the company’s nuclear power business to French utility…

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