Orano
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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.
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
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
Orano | Acteur majeur de l'énergie et du combustible nucléaire
Groupe industriel international de référence, Orano propose des produits et services à forte valeur ajoutée sur tout le cycle du combustible nucléaire.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- organization
- Official name
- ORANO
- Country
- France
- Founded by
- Anne Lauvergeon
- Headquarters
- Châtillon
- Owned by
- Japan Nuclear Fuel Limited
- Parent organization
- Government of the French Republic
- Follows
- Areva
- Official website
- www.orano.group
- Image
- 2148 AREVA SWL Offshore BW M5000 349 tons Trianel alpha Ventus.jpg
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- inception
- 1984-00-00
- social media followers
- 7630
- replaces
- Areva
- product or material produced
- Separative Work Unit
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Encyclopedic overview
13 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- History
- Controversies
- Operations
- Mining
- Processing
- Transportation and storage
- Recycling
- Engineering
- Nuclear medicine
- See also
- References
- External links
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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Orano” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.