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Cyclife Sweden AB, a subsidiary of Cyclife Groupe EDF, has been awarded an eight year contract to treat metallic wastes, approximately 15 000 tons coming from the decommissioning program of four reactor units in Sweden: Oskarshamn 1 and 2, and Barsebäck 1 and 2.This new contract won by Cyclife confirms the leading role played in Europe by Cyclife in treating and recycling metal waste.

Uniper has taken the nuclear power stations Oskarshamn 1 and 2, Barsebäck 1 and 2  out of operation between 1999 and 2017. The power stations will be subject to decommissioning which will generate material and waste that needs special treatments. Cyclife Sweden AB will provide to Uniper innovative, sustainable and cost-efficient radioactive waste management solutions.
 “For Cyclife, this agreement means a partnership with Uniper where we further develop the treatment process, but also deliver services early in the project where we help Uniper prepare and maximize the conditions for clearance and recycling”, says Henrik Modéer, MD of Cyclife Sweden.
 
Cyclife will be in charge of sorting, categorization and treatment of materials and waste from the decommissioning projects at Oskarshamn and Barsebäck. It will be a co-operation work on the power plant sites: Cyclife will support Uniper on optimizing the sorting prior transportation to its facility in Nyköping. Then Cyclife Sweden will treat the metals using different methods to separate the radioactivity from the metal and to prove that it meets the strict requirements for recycling back to industry after clearance at its own site. “Through this framework agreement with Cyclife, we expect to make annual calls of between 1,500 tonnes and 2,500 tonnes until 2027. This is a good example of the synergy effects we gain by coordinating dismantling and demolition of the closed reactors at Oskarshamn and Barsebäcksverket”, says Johan Dasht, MD of Oskarshamns Kraftgrupp AB.
 
About Uniper
Uniper is a leading international energy company with activities in more than 40 countries and around 11,000 employees globally. Its business is the secure provision of energy and related services. Its main activities include power generation in Europe and Russia as well as global energy trading. The company is headquartered in Düsseldorf, Germany.
Further information: http://www.uniper.energy

Further information: presse release

Henrik Modéer has been appointed CEO of Cyclife Sweden AB, effective from March 4, 2019. He used to be sales and marketing director at Stena Recycling. Previously he served as a COO at IL Recycling. Henrik Modéer has an extensive leadership experience in both management consulting firms as well as within the environmental services and waste management industry. His academic background is a Master of Science degree in chemical engineering.

« I am truly honored for the opportunity to join Cyclife Sweden. I believe that together with the workforce we can safely accelerate the development of the company, meet future customer needs even better and improve the profitability », commented Henrik Modéer.

The French Ecology Minister came to the Gard region to sign officially an Ecologic Transition Contract dedicated to boost the economic recovery of the territory after the shut down of EDF fuel electric plant at Aramon.
This contract holds 30 projects in various areas of the economy among which one from SOCODEI, called So’Gard.
We already spoke about these topics in our So Connect newsletters n°6 and n°7. => online on our website here and here…
 To put it in a nutshell, So’Gard is aimed at treating new metallic waste from NPP’s at CENTRACO’s melting unit, with a clear recycling ambition.
 The first type of waste to be treated will be control rods guides.
 A new cutting unit will be built on site to prepare the metal for melting (first operations target date : 2023).
 After signing the contract, the Minister came to visit CENTRACO and discovered SOCODEI’s expertise.

Signature of the cooperation between NDA and EDF. Meeting between Sylvain Granger (Head of Decommissioning and Waste management Projects Division at EDF) et David Peattie (NDA CEO)

In the framework of the 2018 World Nuclear Exhibition, EDF signed a set of agreements to formalize cooperation with European industrial partners.
The purpose of these agreements is to strengthen the industrial sector of nuclear decommissioning in France and to promote its international development, in particular through Cyclife.
 
Agreements signed, in the framework of the World Nuclear Exhibition:

- Partnership agreement with VEOLIA to develop the treatment of radioactive waste by vitrification and think about the design of the industrial demonstrator to secure the dismantling of graphite reactors
- Agreement with ORANO to propose a common offer of services for the decommissioning of the fast neutron reactor at Monju, Japan
- Agreement with FORTUM, a Finnish company and major player in energy in Northern Europe, to develop common offers on decommissioning and radioactive waste management in the Nordic market
- Agreement establishing the basis for cooperation on the dismantling of graphite reactors with the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority, the UK public authority in charge of the decommissioning of 27 Magnox reactors (graphite) in the United Kingdom
- Partnership agreement with SOGIN (Società Gestione Impianti Nucleari), a public company in charge of the decommissioning and waste management in Italy
- Agreement with the CEA on the development of common standards and digital tools, which enable EDF to stay one step ahead in its decommissioning projects and accelerate the digital transition of the industrial sector of decommissioning and waste management radioactive;
-  Acquisition of OREKA SOLUTIONS, start-up specializing in digital at the service of dismantling of nuclear power plants