AREVA Company Description
The AREVA Group brings vertical integration into the nuclear age. The company is involved in every step of nuclear power production. AREVA mines uranium and enriches it (under the trade name AREVA NC). It builds nuclear reactors and services them (through AREVA NP, a joint venture with Siemens). The company also treats and recycles used fuel. AREVA T&D (for Transmission & Distribution) is its electricity transmission and distribution equipment business and accounts for about a third of sales. Subsidiary Canberra makes radiation detection equipment. The CEA (Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique, or French Atomic Energy Commission) owns 79% of AREVA.
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