Radioactive Waste Management in France: A Technical and Responsible Project for Long-Term Management. Yves Kaluzny, Dominique Auverlot, Emmanuel Boissac, and Gerald Ouzounian, ANDRA, Chatenay-Malabry, France
France decided in the Seventies to build a large nuclear power generation capability. The management of the waste produced today includes industrial disposal of low-level waste, and an intense research program on high-level long-lived waste disposal.
Experience has shown that the implementation of this program is contingent on technical considerations, as well as a genuine democratic process. The whole problem resides in the definition of safe management at timescales of several hundred thousand years. This presentation accordingly addresses: the technical problem raised by radioactive waste, and the considerations underlying the management of high-level, long-lived radioactive waste in France today, progress on the corresponding alternatives.
1. Democracy and environment
How are environmental matters dealt with in a democracy?
2. Responsibility and high-level long-lived radioactive waste management
In our view, responsibility for the long-term management of environmental matters associated with high-level long-lived radioactive waste is based on a number of principles which are worth emphasizing (durable protection of the environment and of health, precaution and reversibility, ‘the producer pays’ and the ‘independent operator’, openness and permanent dialogue, ‘financial honesty’.
3. Respect for future generations
How does respect for future generations translate in the legislative system set up?
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