EDF and Veolia Announce the Creation of Waste2Glass: a Joint Venture to Develop Innovative Radioactive Waste Treatment Solutions
30 Noviembre 2021 - 11:00AM
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Regulatory News:
EDF and Veolia (Paris:VIE) have announced the
creation of Waste2Glass, a 50/50 joint venture that will develop a
new sector based on Veolia's Geomelt® vitrification
technology.
The partners are thus renewing their joint commitment to
developing innovative solutions for the treatment of complex
radioactive waste, two years after creating Graphitech, a joint
venture dedicated to the development of solutions for the
decommissioning of graphite-gas reactors, which has now become a
European leader in this field.
Due to its technical nature and cost, vitrification has until
now been reserved for highly radioactive waste. Thanks to the
complementary know-how of the two partners, Waste2Glass will be
able to take up the challenge of the industrial deployment of the
GeoMelt® technology, which will make it possible to broaden and
simplify the use of the vitrification process for a wider range of
waste types.
Currently, GeoMelt® is an unrivalled technology that has the
potential to become a new benchmark solution for the treatment of
complex waste, given the advantages it offers over existing
technologies:
- A relatively simple industrial deployment;
- A significant reduction in waste volumes after treatment,
especially compared to current immobilisation technologies using
cementitious techniques; - Obtaining an extremely durable matrix
for conditioning.
This technology has already been used to treat 26,000 tonnes of
radioactive and hazardous waste, particularly in the USA.
The creation of the Waste2Glass company is planned for early
2022. It will be based in Limay (Yvelines), near a new pilot unit
that will incorporate the GeoMelt® process, recently commissioned
by Veolia, in order to carry out demonstrations and obtain the
certifications required for the industrial deployment of this
process.
Antoine Frérot, Chairman and CEO of Veolia said: "Our
business and our Purpose as a world leader of the ecological
transformation is to offer innovative technologies and solutions
for the management of complex waste such as hazardous and
radioactive waste. I am delighted that we have taken this further
step in our collaboration with EDF with the creation of
Waste2Glass. It will enable a real change of scale through the
industrialisation of GeoMelt®, which will make it possible to treat
radioactive waste more safely and more economically, with a
reduction in storage volumes."
Jean Bernard Lévy, Chairman and CEO of EDF, said "After
Graphitec, the creation of Waste2Glass illustrates not only the
quality of the cooperation between our two companies, but also the
EDF Group's commitment to the development and industrial
application of truly innovative solutions for the treatment of
radioactive waste, a key issue for bringing nuclear power into the
mainstream of sustainable development and helping to build a
carbon-free future."
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About Veolia Veolia group aims to be the benchmark
company for ecological transformation. With nearly 179,000
employees worldwide, the Group designs and provides game-changing
solutions that are both useful and practical for water, waste and
energy management. Through its three complementary business
activities, Veolia helps to develop access to resources, preserve
available resources, and replenish them. In 2020, the Veolia group
supplied 95 million people with drinking water and 62 million
people with wastewater service, produced nearly 43 million megawatt
hours of energy and treated 47 million metric tons of waste. Veolia
Environnement (listed on Paris Euronext: VIE) recorded consolidated
revenue of €26.010 billion in 2020. www.veolia.com
About EDF As a major player in energy transition, the EDF
Group is an integrated energy company active in all businesses:
generation, transmission, distribution, energy trading, energy
sales and energy services. EDF group is a world leader in
low-carbon energy, having developed a diverse production mix based
mainly on nuclear and renewable energy (including hydropower). It
is also investing in new technologies to support energy transition.
EDF’s raison d’être is to build a net zero energy future with
electricity and innovative solutions and services, to help save the
planet and drive well-being and economic development. The Group is
involved in supplying energy and services to approximately 37.9
million customers (1), of whom 28.7 million in France (2). It
generated consolidated sales of €69.0 billion in 2020. EDF is
listed on the Paris Stock Exchange.
- Since 2018, customers are counted per delivery site. A customer
can have two delivery points: one for electricity and another one
for gas.
- Including ÉS (Électricité de Strasbourg).
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