What products do you make at Cameco Fuel Manufacturing?
Cameco Fuel Manufacturing is the largest Canadian-based supplier of reactor components to Candu operators in Canada and around the world. It produces natural uranium dioxide (UO2) fuel bundles that are used to generate electricity at Candu reactors. Uranium dioxide powder from Cameco’s Port Hope conversion facility is pressed into small pellets that are placed in zirconium tubing, which is then sealed at each end. A number of these tubes are bound together into the finished fuel bundle. The Cobourg plant processes the zirconium tubing. One fuel bundle can supply an average home with energy for 100 years. A reactor at Darlington contains over 6,000 bundles.
Related Questions
- If there is no "buffer zone" around the conversion facility and Cameco Fuel Manufacturing does that increase risk from things such as radiological contamination and other chemicals?
- Shouldn there be a buffer zone around the Cameco Fuel Manufacturing plant in Port Hope?
- Is there any risk of an explosion at Cameco Fuel Manufacturing?
