Areva NC, formerly Cogema (Compagnie générale des matières nucléaires, name changed in march 2006), a French company created in 1976 as a wholly owned subsidiary of the AREVA group, is an industrial group active in uranium mining, conversion and enrichment through spent fuel reprocessing and recycling. Cogéma is present in France and COGEMA and its subsidiaries are active in more than 30 countries. It employs approximately 19 000 worldwide. AREVA (Euronext: CEI) is a France-based multinational industrial conglomerate that deals in energy, especially in nuclear power. ... General Name, Symbol, Number uranium, U, 92 Chemical series actinides Group, Period, Block n/a, 7, f Appearance silvery gray metallic; corrodes to a spalling black oxide coat in air Atomic mass 238. ... Enriched uranium is uranium whose uranium-235 content has been increased through the process of isotope separation. ...

The COGEMA La Hague site, located on the western tip of the Cotentin Peninsula in Normandy, reprocesses spent power reactor fuel to recycle reusable energy materials-uranium and plutonium - and to condition the waste into suitable final form. The COGEMA La Hague site is a nuclear fuel reprocessing plant near La Hague on the French Cotentin Peninsula that currently has over half of the worlds light water reactor spent nuclear fuel reprocessing capacity. ... The Cotentin Peninsula juts out into the English Channel from Normandy towards England, forming part of the north-west coast of France. ... Mont Saint-Michel, one of the famous symbols of Normandy. ... General Name, Symbol, Number plutonium, Pu, 94 Chemical series actinides Group, Period, Block n/a, 7, f Appearance silvery white Atomic mass (244) g/mol Electron configuration [Rn] 5f6 7s2 Electrons per shell 2, 8, 18, 32, 24, 8, 2 Physical properties Phase solid Density (near r. ...

COGEMA has uranium reserves in Niger, Canada, Australia and Kazakhstan. The last mine operated in France, La Société des Mines de Jouac, closed in 2001 when its reserves ran out. Now COGEMA operates uranium mines only in Niger and Canada. It also conducts exploration, primarily in Canada, Niger and central Asia, to strengthen its position and replenish its worldwide reserves. World map showing the location of Asia. ...

See also

• Eurodif program
• Marcoule, a site shared by Areva NC and the Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique (CEA) nuclear organization

Eurodif, which means European Gaseous Diffusion Uranium Enrichment Consortium, is a subsidiary company of French company Cogéma which exploits a uranium enrichment plant established in the nuclear site of Tricastin in Pierrelatte in Drôme. ... Marcoule is located in the Chusclan and Codolet French communes, near Bagnols-sur-Cèze in the Gard department, which is in the touristic, wine and agricultural Côtes-du-Rhône region. ... The Commissariat à lÉnergie Atomique or CEA, the Atomic Energy Commisson, in English, is a French public establishment of an industrial and commercial character whose mission is to develop all applications of atomic energy, both civilian and military. ...

External links

• The official website of the Areva NC