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Shaw AREVA MOX Services, LLC (MOX Services)

Shaw AREVA MOX Services’ objective responds to one of the U.S. Department of Energy's most pressing missions: safely disposing of weapons-grade plutonium declared surplus at the end of the Cold War. In March 1999, MOX Services (then DCS), signed a contract with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to support the Department's mission to dispose of weapons-grade plutonium that is no longer required for defense purposes.

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The Mixed Oxide ( MOX) Project:

The surplus plutonium will be combined with uranium to manufacture Mixed-Oxide (MOX²) fuel for use in two U.S. light-water nuclear energy reactors: the Catawba and McGuire plants, operated by Duke Energy. MOX Services has a DOE contract to design and construct, with an option to operate, the MOX Fuel fabrication facility, as well as to design the MOX fuel and supply it to Duke Energy for use in commercial nuclear power plants. AREVA³ companies, including AREVA NC Inc., working through MOX Services, provide the following services:

Plutonium aqueous polishing
MOX fabrication technology
Process design, construction management and start-up testing
MOX Fresh Fuel package design, licensing, fabrication and testing.

In addition to plutonium treatment and MOX Fuel Fabrication know-how, AREVA NC Inc. supplies engineering, process equipment manufacturing capabilities and operations experience, all based on knowledge gained from existing used-fuel treatment and MOX manufacturing Facilities.

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¹ AREVA NC Inc. has a 30% participation in Shaw AREVA MOX Services, LLC. AREVA NP Inc., also an AREVA group company, is a leading subcontractor of MOX Services and will bring its fuel fabrication experience to the project
²Thirty nuclear power plants throughout the world currently use MOX fuel, most of which is produced at MELOX, the industrial-scale MOX fuel plant operated by AREVA NC.
³AREVA has 30 years of experience in MOX fuel design and fabrication

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