This survey offers a complete review concerning the nuclear power plants waste management in France from generation to disposal, as well as future evolutions.
Fundamental Safety Rule specified by the government defines safety objectives, design bases for surface disposals and preliminary terms for acceptance of waste packages on the surface disposal site.
A governmental decree authorizes the creation of CSA (Centre de Stockage de l'Aude; French surface repository), and defines the limits of radiological inventory of the disposal facility.
The national waste agency ANDRA was established in 1979 by government (turned into public in 1991), and ANDRA defines the technical specifications involving acceptance criteria of the waste packages.
The main feature of the French management includes;
-Comprehensive quality assurance program that encompasses all area of the management
-Centralized installation for the melting of contaminated scrap metals and incineration of low level technological wastes
-Mobile unit for common treatment of ion exchange resin
-Concrete package assuring the long term containment
-Complete tracking system of wastes from generation to disposal
This survey would be useful in the consideration of Japanese waste management including miscellaneous wastes, high βγ wastes, large metallic wastes, etc.
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