Hague

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Facility Data

Fuel Cycle Facilities

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Fuel cycle plants at this site, as listed in the IAEA Nuclear Fuel Cycle Facilities Database: what each plant does, its scale and design capacity, the years it operated, its current status and who operates it.
9 facilities: 6 in operation, 2 decommissioning, 1 decommissioned.
Facility Type Scale Design Capacity Operated Status Operator
La Hague - NPH AFR Wet Spent Fuel Storage (Pool) Commercial 2000 t HM 1981– In Operation Orano
La Hague - C AFR Wet Spent Fuel Storage (Pool) Commercial 4800 t HM 1984– In Operation Orano
La Hague - D AFR Wet Spent Fuel Storage (Pool) Commercial 4600 t HM 1986– In Operation Orano
La Hague - E AFR Wet Spent Fuel Storage (Pool) Commercial 6200 t HM 1988– In Operation Orano
La Hague - UP3 Spent Fuel Reprocessing - aqueous route Commercial 1000 t HM/year 1990– In Operation Orano
La Hague - UP2-800 Spent Fuel Reprocessing - aqueous route Commercial 1000 t HM/year 1996– In Operation Orano
La Hague - UP2-400 Spent Fuel Reprocessing - aqueous route Commercial 400 t HM/year 1966–2004 Decommissioning Orano
La Hague - AT1 Spent Fuel Reprocessing - aqueous route Pilot plant 0.365 t HM/year 1969–1979 Decommissioned Orano
La Hague - HAO AFR Wet Spent Fuel Storage (Pool) Commercial 400 t HM 1976– Decommissioning Orano
Source: IAEA Nuclear Fuel Cycle Facilities Database (NFCFDB), as of 2026-10-13.

Working Here

Per Diem Rates FY 2026

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Per diem covers lodging and meals & incidental expenses (M&IE) for government and contractor travel near this facility. Rates are from the U.S. State Department foreign per diem tables for FY 2026.
$220
Lodging/Night
$132
M&IE/Day
$352
Total/Day
France: rate for locations the State Department does not list separately
U.S. Department of State foreign per diem, for U.S. government and contractor travel.

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Facility Map

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Interactive satellite map showing the facility's geographic location. Marker color indicates current status: green for online, red for offline, orange for reduced power. Click the header to open in Google Maps satellite view.

49.6768, -1.8819

Location & Contact

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Physical address, phone number, and website for this facility. Use the directions link to get driving directions via Google Maps.
Address:
Omonville-la-Petite, Normandy, France
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Plant Facts

About This Site

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Written by NukeWorker from public records: facts that do not change. Operator, status and capacity come from the live data elsewhere on this page. Sources: ASN: Reprocessing plants (COGEMA establishment at La Hague), 2005 annual report; ASN: La Hague, 2018 annual report; Wikipedia: La Hague site.

La Hague is a nuclear fuel reprocessing site at the northwest tip of the Cotentin peninsula, in the Manche department of Normandy, near Omonville-la-Petite. It lies about 20 km west of Cherbourg and about 15 km from the Channel Islands.

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The French atomic energy commission decided in 1959 to build the UP2-400 plant to treat fuel from gas-cooled reactors, and it started operating in January 1967. In 1974, it was authorized to modify the plant to reprocess fuel from pressurized water reactors. In 1981, authorization was given for two larger plants, UP2-800 and UP3, and a liquid effluent treatment station, STE3. These installations were commissioned between 1986 and 2002, with most process units entering service in 1989 and 1990.