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1. Low Level Nuclear Waste Management in France Strategy and industrialization Nicolas Solente International Division, ANDRA, France nicolas.solente@andra.fr

2. Contents The general approach to waste management Keys for a successful management strategy Available solutions for low- and intermediate-level short-lived radioactive waste

3. The general approach to waste management

5. Disposal options require flexibilityExample of the French situation, end of 2007

6. Main waste streams: operations Waste from day-to-day operations

7. Wastestreams: dismantling Waste from decommissioning and dismantling

9. liabilities, funding;

10. guarantees of transparency & information (eg for public awareness);

11. the local level involvement;Knowledge of the waste inventory and its forecast; Safety is the priority. No “wait & see” policy

12. Keys for the management strategy

13. Strategy for disposal 300 years for surface disposal Some 105 years for geological disposal Limit transfer and/or amount of long lived activity Contain and Isolate differentwaste types, same objective Activity Time

14. Priorities & agendas Short-lived waste Period ≤ 31 years Long-lived waste Period > 31 years Very low level Waste from dismantling operations (CSTFA in France since 2003) Centre de Morvilliers (waste from dismantling operations) Graphite, radium-bearing waste (Studies stage in France) Waste mainly from day-to-day operation of NPPs (CSFMA in France since 1992) Low level Waste from SF reprocessing plants (Geological disposal facility in France to be commissioned in 2025) Intermediate level High level HL vitrified waste : after reprocessing & cooling,

19. Adjusting operational tools to waste generators needs

20. Long-term issues as a daily concern

21. Building the experience of the closure of a facility

22. Obtaining and maintaining confidence of the public

25. Other items under investigation: neutron shieldingelements, PWR vessels, transportation containers

26. Disposal design

28. Open new disposal routes (asbestos, reactive organic or aqueous liquids, contaminated mercury,…)

32. Driven by long term safety

33. Maintains cost efficiencySpain El Cabril Lithuania

34. Available solutions for very low short-lived radioactive waste

36. Power plants: under 25 years deconstruction of 9 power reactors

37. Eurodif enrichment plant decommissioning

39. Nuclear wastes / conventional wastes

40. No clearance level for nuclear wastes About 650,000 m3 with a very low specific activity (range = a few Bq/g) or just potentially radioactive to be disposed of till 2030  A need for a safe and cost effective disposal solution

41. General presentation and design 1/3 Commissioned : August 2003 Footprint : 45 ha including 28.5 ha for thedisposal zone Disposal capacity : 650,000 m3 26 % of disposal capacity at the end of 2010 Operating lifetime : around 30 years Initial investment : €40 million

42. General presentation and design 2/3

43. General presentation and design 3/3 2- Construction 3- Operation 1 - Preparation 4- Implementation of the capping system

46. Packaging of wastes

48. Succesfullytransposed to other countries, withdifferent local context