Orano
Sign in to saveOrano SA is a French multinational nuclear fuel cycle corporation headquartered in Châtillon, Hauts-de-Seine. The company is engaged in uranium mining, conversion-enrichment, spent fuel recycling, nuclear logistics, dismantling, and nuclear cycle engineering activities. It was created in 2017 as a result of restructuring and recapitalizing of the nuclear conglomerate Areva. Orano is majority owned by the French state. , Orano is the second largest uranium producer in the world with 9% share in global uranium production.
Key facts
- Company.name
- Orano SA
- Company.predecessor
- Areva
- Company.logo
- Orano_Logo.svg
- Company.image
- Siège Social Orano.jpg
- Company.image_caption
- Headquarters in Châtillon, Greater Paris
- Company.revenue
- (2024)
- Company.operating_income
- (2024)
- Company.net_income
- (2024)
- Company.assets
- (2024)
- Company.equity
- (2024)
- Company.founder
- Anne Lauvergeon, Pascal Colombani
- Company.location_city
- Châtillon (Paris)
- Company.location_country
- France
- Company.area_served
- Worldwide
- Company.key_people
- Claude Imauven (Chairman)Philippe Knoche (CEO)
- Company.industry
- Nuclear industry
- Company.products
- Nuclear fuel
- Company.services
- Nuclear enrichmentNuclear material transportNuclear reprocessing
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13 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- History
- Controversies
- Operations
- Mining
- Processing
- Transportation and storage
- Recycling
- Engineering
- Nuclear medicine
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Orano SA is a French multinational nuclear fuel cycle corporation headquartered in Châtillon, Hauts-de-Seine. The company is engaged in uranium mining, conversion-enrichment, spent fuel recycling, nuclear logistics, dismantling, and nuclear cycle engineering activities. It was created in 2017 as a result of restructuring and recapitalizing of the nuclear conglomerate Areva. Orano is majority owned by the French state. , Orano is the second largest uranium producer in the world with 9% share in global uranium production.
==Etymology== The name Orano is derived from Ouranos, the Greek god, and it refers to uranium. The company's circular yellow logo refers to yellowcake uranium concentrate and to the nuclear fuel cycle.
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