Orano - Annual Activity Report 2025 42 2 SITUATION AND ACTIVITIES OF THE COMPANY AND ITS SUBSIDIARIES DURING THE PAST FINANCIAL YEAR The group’s businesses commissioning. In this area, it relies on its specialized nuclear transport subsidiary Orano Nuclear Trucking and on approved subcontractors; ● in the United States, TN Americas and its production facility (TNF) design and manufacture dry storage containers for US nuclear electric utilities. Orano NPS is one of the main players in the US market. The entity also operates transport at the front end of the cycle; ● in Asia, Transnuclear Ltd carries out engineering studies and transport, as well as cask maintenance work for the Japanese market. Orano NPS also has teams in China and South Korea. The Nuclear Packages and Services business has a fleet of transport equipment, including casks and road and rail resources, and operates road, rail, and sea terminals. To accomplish its mission of supervising the group’s transport operations, the business has an organization that manages risks and sets up appropriate action plans to manage any emergency at any location, in liaison with the public authorities. Its realtime transport tracking center gives it a continuous stream of information on transport operations. NUCLEAR PACKAGES AND SERVICES: UNIQUE GLOBAL KNOW-HOW Design of packaging systems and associated equipment Material, shielding, criticality, mechanical and thermal behavior Design and innovation Transport commissioning, leasing of casks and transport means Logistics Technical assistance, loading operations, "Pool to Pad" services, maintenance activities, training Manufacturing of packages Supply chain management Services Transport and storage solutions Safety analysis reports Licensing process management Relations with more than 30 international safety authorities Licensing Source: Orano (ISO 9001, ISO 45001 and ISO 14001 certifications) Unique know-how • • • • • • • • • Dismantling and Services (DS) The Dismantling and Services business offers customers a broad range of services covering three main types of operations: ● services to nuclear operators: nuclear logistics and project support, facility maintenance, radiological safety of workers and facility operations. These operations mostly involve nuclear facilities currently in production, which must ensure the highest safety performance at all times, and constantly improve on this too, preserve assets, plan for the future and control costs. The Dismantling and Services business also has a subsidiary dedicated to training in nuclear professions and personal development (Trihom), a leading player in the sector in France, as well as an entity specializing in asbestos diagnosis (Orano DA); ● nuclear facility decommissioning activities across the entire value chain, from the design of intervention scenarios to their implementation in the field: technical studies, radiological characterization of facilities to be decommissioned, remediation, deconstruction of the nuclear plant process, operation of facilities being decommissioned and of support facilities, enhancing the value of land and buildings. Numerous facilities built in the 1950s and 1960s are reaching the end of their operating period. Their decommissioning and the rehabilitation of their host sites, in particular to allow new projects to be located there, represent a major industrial challenge. The DS business includes operation of facilities that have been shut down, studies and project management, and lastly, the carrying out of decommissioning operations. DS is also responsible for decommissioning the group’s former facilities on the Tricastin, Malvési and la Hague sites, including the former UP2-400 spent fuel processing and Georges Besse I gas diffusion enrichment plants. The entity offers its competencies and resources to its customers in France, in particular CEA and EDF, and internationally, offers engineering, tooling and training services; ● waste management operations, including waste from the production and operation of nuclear facilities, decommissioning operations and major maintenance operations. The Dismantling and Services business also contributes to major projects for the retrieval and packaging of legacy waste stored at the sites pending the availability of storage channels.
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