Urenco Deutschland (Gronau)
Gronau is the site of Urenco’s uranium enrichment plant in Germany. It is located close to the Dutch/German border in North-Rhine-Westphalia, some 40 km from Urenco's Dutch enrichment plant. Here uranium is enriched in centrifuge cascades to the U235 assays required by nuclear power plants.
As with all Urenco sites, Gronau aims to be at the forefront of environmental performance and through continual improvement endeavours to reduce the impact of its activities on the environment.
History
The Gronau plant began operation in August 1985. By the beginning of 1998 the plant reached its original design capacity of 1,000 tonnes separative work per annum (tSW p.a.). Since then the plant has expanded continuously, on the strength of several additional nuclear licences, with capacity of 1,800 tSW/a at the year end.
Achievements
During 2008 efforts were focussed on the production start of the first operational unit in the new UTA-2 plant. The plant is now fully operational.
Senior Management Team
| Joachim Ohnemus |
Managing Director |
| Uwe Sommerfeld |
Human Resources |
| Christoph Langehaneberg |
Finance |
| Reinhard Mey |
Senior Adviser |
| Stefan Busch |
Operations |
| Ferdinand Rose |
Project Manager |
| Ludger Wiechers |
Technical Services |
| Burkhard Kleibömer |
Compliance |