Orano

Orano is a FRA company active in the nuclear fuel chain as miner, converter, enricher, fabricator, reprocessing.

The restructured fuel-cycle business of Areva, majority owned by the French state. Orano is the only company outside Rosatom present at every stage from mine to reprocessing: uranium mines in Niger, Canada and Kazakhstan; conversion at Malvési and Tricastin; enrichment at Georges Besse II; fabrication through Framatome; and used-fuel reprocessing at La Hague, the largest such plant in the world.

Position in the chain

Mining Conversion Enrichment Fabrication HALEU Reprocessing

Downstream

Output from this company feeds the stages below it in the chain, and ultimately 419 operating reactors across these types.

Reactor type	Operating units
Pressurised water reactor	311
Boiling water reactor	45
Pressurised heavy water reactor	44
Gas-cooled reactor	9
Light water graphite reactor	7
Fast reactor	2
High-temperature gas reactor	1

Facilities

Facility	Stage	Country	Capacity / output	Status
Malvési and Philippe Coste (Tricastin)	conversion	FRA	15,000tU/yr as UF6	operating
Tricastin deconversion (W plant)	deconversion	FRA	20,000tU/yr	operating
Georges Besse II, Tricastin	enrichment	FRA	7,500tSWU/yr	operating
Project IKE, Oak Ridge	enrichment	USA	not disclosed	planned
Moinkum and Tortkuduk (KATCO)	mining	KAZ	2,388tU/yr	operating
La Hague	reprocessing	FRA	1,700tHM/yr	operating

Sources

• Orano — company source
• Global Nuclear Power Tracker, Global Energy Monitor, August 2026 release — CC BY 4.0 · retrieved 2026-09-06