Orano - Annual Activity Report 2024 42 2 SITUATION AND ACTIVITIES OF THE COMPANY AND ITS SUBSIDIARIES DURING THE PAST FINANCIAL YEAR The group’s businesses 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 dismantled, remediation, deconstruction of the nuclear plant process, operation of facilities being dismantled 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 dismantling 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 dismantling operations. DS is also responsible for dismantling the group’s former facilities on the Tricastin, Malvési and la Hague sites, including the former UP2-400 used 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, dismantling 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. THE THREE TYPES OF OPERATIONS OF THE DISMANTLING AND SERVICES BUSINESS Dismantling Management of radioactive waste On-site investigations, design of scenarios and performance of studies Characterization, sorting and processing of all types of waste Industrial logistics Radiological safety Specialized maintenance Training Performance of nuclear equipment dismantling operations Retrieval and packaging of old waste Nuclear operator services Source: Orano The Dismantling and Services business provides services to practically all of the French nuclear sites operated by Orano, the CEA and EDF. It also has operational contacts abroad, through the group’s subsidiaries (Orano GmbH and Orano DSR in Germany, Orano DS LLC in the United States) and partnerships forged with local entities, for example in South Korea.
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