OREANDA-NEWS. As announced by AREVA and International Nuclear Services (INS), a shipment of vitrified nuclear waste from the United Kingdom to Switzerland is currently under way. The journey involves a stage by sea from the United Kingdom to France, which has already been completed, and a stage by land in France and Switzerland. The rail shipment is set to depart today from the AREVA rail terminal in Valognes (Manche, France). Its destination is an interim storage site in Switzerland.

Carrying the shipment of four transport casks, each loaded with 28 canisters of vitrified waste, the vessel Oceanic Pintail arrived at the port of Cherbourg (Manche, France) from the United Kingdom on Monday 10 October 2016. The transport casks were then unloaded for transportation to Switzerland by rail.