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Front End
The AREVA Front End Business Group combines activities associated with the conversion and enrichment of uranium and with the design and fuel production for nuclear reactors.
AREVA leads Front End Fuel Cycle Operations in North America.
- Currently supplying approximately 20 percent of the U.S. enrichment market
- Fuel produced in Richland accounts for five percent of the electricity generated in the U.S.
Front End of Fuel Cycle Activities
AREVA is one of the world leaders in the front end of the nuclear cycle, i.e. uranium conversion and enrichment and nuclear fuel fabrication.
U.S. Fuel Production
Decades of expertise with the design and fuel production for nuclear reactors.
Enrichment in the United States
AREVA provides uranium enrichment services and is working to build an enrichment plant for the United States.
Global Front End Activities
AREVA Front End business group combines activities associated with the conversion and enrichment of uranium and with the design and fuel production for nuclear reactors.
Enrichment, a key stage in the fuel chain
To obtain fuel that can be used in nuclear reactors, the concentration of uranium 235 found in natural uranium must be increased; this is called enrichment. Present throughout the nuclear fuel cycle, AREVA ensures uranium enrichment in France and will soon do so in the United States as well.
