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The client produces oil off the coast of Mauritania and generates, by maintenance operations, regular volumes of sludge that are stored in big-bags prior to disposal. The client’s production of hazardous and potentially NORM-contaminated wastes (NORM = naturally occurring radioactive material) reached over 250t and required a high reactivity and strong expertise in segregation and characterization techniques to assure the disposal and maintain compliance with environmental regulations.  
   
Veolia with its dedicated company ASTERALIS proposed a high level of expertise at every step of the process from the waste handling and analysis to the final disposal. State-of-the-art mobile equipment used by highly qualified personnel allowed the characterization of soils, installations, pipes, tanks, wastes, sludge, and other samples in a limited time.

**Customer benefits:**

- Integrated offer from detection of the waste nature up to the final disposal and treatment
- Reduced transport, disposal and treatment costs as result of
- Ensured radioprotection controls and radiological mapping during all steps of operations



 

 

 



 

 

~250 t of contaminated sludge and wood



 

 

 

 

 

 





Fast response time



 

 

 

 

 

 





Special safety conditions (sandstorms, T ~40°C)