The geographic location of waste
At the end of 2007, there were 1,121 registered sites on which radioactive waste was located. More than 90% of the radioactivity from this waste is concentrated on the sites of La Hague in the Manche district and of Marcoule in the Gard district.
Main electronuclear sites
Main research sites
Main defence and nuclear deterrent forces sites
Main storage and disposal sites
Number of sites identified by activity sector:
- Front-end of the fuel cycle: 31
- Nuclear power plants: 26
- Back-end of the fuel cycle: 4
- Waste treatment or maintenance centres: 8
- Civil R&D centres of the CEA: 13
- Research centres (excluding the CEA): 569
- Medical activities: 264
- Miscellaneous industrial activities: 42
- Non-nuclear industries using naturally-occurring radioactive material:14
- Research, production or experimentation centres of the nuclear deterrent forces: 11
- Defence sites: 106
- Storage and disposal facilities: 33
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