AREVA TA Wins a Contract to Design a Low and Medium Level Waste Disposal Center in Lithuania

PARIS--(Business Wire)--
Regulatory News:

Following an international tendering process, the team of companies headed up by
AREVA TA (Paris:CEI) was awarded a contract to design a near surface repository
for low and medium level waste on the Ignalina nuclear power plant site in
Lithuania.

The project, funded primarily by the EBRD, includes the design studies for the
repository and on-site support during construction. The repository will receive
low and medium level operational waste recovered from the dismantling of the
Lithuanian power plant.

As part of AREVA's Reactors and Services division, AREVA TA has extensive
experience in the design of such facilities for radioactive waste, or in
providing support to projects for their design and construction.

Other team members include the French national radioactive waste management
agency ANDRA, which will provide its expertise in this field, the Lithuanian
Energy Institute (LEI), which brings experience in safety an environmental
assessment, and knowledge on national regulations, the company Specialus
Montazas-NTP (SM-NTP), which contributes skills in geology, civil engineering,
seismic design and mechanical design, and the company Pramprojektas (PP), which
brings infrastructure know-how.

"It is important for us to participate in a project of this kind alongside ANDRA
and our Lithuanian partners", announces Yves Lapierre, Chief Executive Officer
of AREVA TA. "Bringing all of these skills to bear on this type of facility
confirms the relevance of the industrial solutions we have been offering our
customers for more than thirty-five years, solutions which go hand-in-hand with
the safety and environmental protection requirements."

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