France: spent nuclear fuel arisings and storage

In 2020, the total cumulative volume of spent nuclear fuel in France was of around 14,000 tons of heavy metal in storage, with a slight decrease compared to 2019. The largest storage of spent nuclear fuel was accumulated in 2015, with over 15,00 tons.
Projected spent nuclear fuel storage capacities in France in 2025 were of 26,000 tons of heavy metal in total.

Spent nuclear fuel arisings and cumulative in storage in France from 2013 to 2020 (in tons of heavy metal)

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Release date

June 2022

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Region

France

Survey time period

2013 to 2020

Supplementary notes

Includes light-water reactors (LWR) and fast reactors (FR). Includes storage at the nuclear plants location and away from the nuclear plants.
* Data are provisional.

This statistic was compiled using publications of the same source for different years.
The source does not provide explanations for the discrepancies in the cumulative spent nuclear fuel in storage,

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