COVRA (Centrale Organisatie Voor Radioactief Afval) is the only

Dutch Dutch commonly refers to: * Something of, from, or related to the Netherlands * Dutch people () * Dutch language () Dutch may also refer to: Places * Dutch, West Virginia, a community in the United States * Pennsylvania Dutch Country People E ...

nuclear waste processing and storage company. Located in

Nieuwdorp Nieuwdorp is a village in the Netherlands, Dutch province of Zeeland. It is a part of the municipality of Borsele, and lies about 9 km east of Middelburg, Zeeland, Middelburg. History The village was first mentioned around 1750 as Het Nieu ...

, it stores waste produced at the

Borssele nuclear power plant The Borssele Nuclear Power Station (''Kerncentrale Borssele'') is a nuclear power plant near the Dutch town of Borssele. It has a pressurised water reactor (PWR). Borssele is the only nuclear power plant still operational for electricity productio ...

after it is reprocessed by

Areva NC Orano Cycle, formerly COGEMA (''Compagnie générale des matières nucléaires'') and Areva NC, is a French nuclear company. It is the main subsidiary of Orano S.A. It is an industrial group active in all stages of the uranium fuel cycle, inclu ...

AREVA NC - nuclear energy, nuclear fuel - La Hague
in

La Hague La Hague () is a commune in the department of Manche, northwestern France. The municipality was established on 1 January 2017 by merger of the former communes of Beaumont-Hague (the seat), Acqueville, Auderville, Biville, Branville-Hague, D ...

, France. The company also stores

radioactive waste Radioactive waste is a type of hazardous waste that contains radioactive material. Radioactive waste is a result of many activities, including nuclear medicine, nuclear research, nuclear power generation, rare-earth mining, and nuclear weapons r ...

from hospitals and laboratories. COVRA currently has a license to operate for one hundred years.

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