Useful links

OUR PARTNERS

BRGM: Bureau de recherches géologiques et minières (Office of Geological and Mining Research)
CNRS: Centre national de la recherche scientifique (National Centre for Scientific Research)
CORDIS: Community Research and Development Information Service (BIOCLIM)
Ecole des Mines de Paris (Paris School of Mining Engineering)
GdR FORPRO: Groupement CNRS-Andra pour la recherche sur le stockage en FORmations géologiques PROfondes (CNRS/Andra Research Group of Disposal in Deep Geological Formations)
Mont-Terri: Swiss Methodological Research Laboratory
Yucca Mountain: American Methodological Research Laboratory
WIPP: Waste Isolation Plant Program (U.S.A.)

EDRAM International Association for Environmentally Safe Disposal of Radioactive Materials

- BIOCLIM, Modelling Sequential Biosphere Systems under Climate Change for Radioactive Waste Disposal

- ESDRED, Engineering studies and Demonstration of Repository Designs
- NF-PRO Understanding and physical and numerical modelling of the key processes in the near-field, and their coupling, for different host rocks and repository strategies
- Migration'05, 10th International Conference on Chemistry and Migration Behaviour of Actinides and Fission Products in the Geosphere

- IGDTP Implementing Geological Disposal of Radioactive Waste Technology Platform

NATIONAL CONTACTS

AREVA (group including, Cogéma, Framatome et the La Hague site): know-how on the overall nuclear fuel cycle (mining, construction of nuclear power plants, fuel fabrication, cleanup, dismantling)
CEA: Commissariat à l'énergie atomique (French Atomic Energy Commission)
EDF: Electricité de France
Socodei: Société pour le conditionnement des déchets et des effluents industriels (Industrial Waste and Effluent Conditioning Company)

SUPERVISORY BODIES

REGULATORY AND SPECIALISED ORGANISATIONS

ASN: Autorité de sûreté nucléaire (French Nuclear Safety Authority)
ADEME: Agence de l'environnement et de la maîtrise de l'énergie (French Agency for Environment and Energy Management)
CLI: Commission locale d'information (Local Information Committee)
CLIS: Comité local d'information et de suivi (Local Information and Oversight Committee for the Meuse/Haute-Marne Laboratory
DRIRE: Direction régionale de l'industrie, de la recherche et de l'environnement (Regional Directorate for Industry, Research and the Environment)
Eurosafe Forum : international and European approach with a view to harmonising technical practices of nuclear safety in Europe
IAEA: International Atomic Energy Agency
INERIS: Institut national de l'environnement et des risques (French National Institute for Industrial Environment and Risks)
IRSN: Institut de radioprotection et de sûreté nucléaire (French Institute for Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety)
OPECST: Office parlementaire d'évaluation des choix scientifiques et technologiques (French Parliamentary Office for the Assessment of Scientific and Technical Choices)

OUR FOREIGN COUTERPARTS

Belgium	ONDRAF : Organisme national des déchets radioactifs et des matières fissiles enrichies CEN-SCK : Centre d'étude de l'Energie Nucléaire
Canada	NWMO : Nuclear Waste Management Organization OPG : Ontario Power Generation (principal producteur)
China	CNNC : China National Nuclear Corporation
Corea	KEPCO : Korean Electric Power Corporation KAERI : Korea Atomic Energy Research Insitute
Etats-Unis	US-DOE : US Department of Energy
Finland	POSIVA OY : Expertise on nuclear waste management
Germany	DBE : Deutsch Gesellschaft zum bau und betrieb von Endlagern fur abfallstoffe mbh BFS : Bundesamt für Strahlenschutz
Italy	ENEA : Ente per le Nuove tecnologie, l'Energia et l'Ambiante
Japan	JNFL : Japan Nuclear Fuel Ltd NUMO : Nuclear Waste Management of Japan RWMC : Radioactive waste management funding and research center
Netherlands	COVRA : Centrale Organisatie Voor Radioactief Afval
Spain	ENRESA : Empresa Nacional de Residuos Radioactivos
Sweden	SKB : Svensk Kärnbränslehantering AB KASAM : Swedish National Council for Nuclear Waste
Switzerland	NAGRA : National Cooperative for the Disposal of Radioactive Waste
United-Kingdom	BNFL : British Nuclear Fuel Limited NDA : Nuclear Decommissioning Authority

ASSOCIATIONS AND INDEPENDENT PARTNERS

ACRO: Association pour le contrôle de la radioactivité de l'Ouest (Association of Environmentalists for the Control of Radioactivity in Westren France)
Amis de la Terre (Friends of the Earth): Environnemental association
Confédération française pour les essais non destructifs (French Federation for Non-destructive Testing)
Coordination nationale des collectifs contre l'enfouissement des déchets radioactifs (National Co-ordination of Collectives Against the Burial of Radioactive Waste)
CPIE: Centre permanent d'initiatives pour l'environnement de Soulaines (Soulaines Standing Centre for Environmental Initiatives)
CRIIRAD: Commission de recherche et d'information indépendantes sur la radioactivité (Commission for Independant Research and Information on Radioactivity)
CYPRES: Centre d'information du public pour la prévention des risques industriels et la protection de l'environnement (Public Information Centre for the Control of Industrial Risks and Environmental Protection)
Greenpeace France
Groupement d'intérêt public Objectif Meuse (Meuse Public Interest Group)
Infonucléaire
Nuclear Energy Institute
Nuclear Information & Ressource Service
Réseau "Sortir du nucléaire" ("Banning Nuclear Energy" Network)
SFEN: Société française d'énergie nucléaire (Frenc Nuclear Energy Society)
World Nuclear Association

OTHER SITES ON RADIOACTIVITY AND GEOLOGY

La Radioactivité Monsieur Tout-le-monde rencontre la radioactivité (Radioactivity for the average man)
Palais de la découverte (Discovery Museum)
Cité des sciences et de l'industrie (Science and Industry Centre)
Jussieu (100th Anniversary of radioactivity)
e-Géologie (Earth-science portal)
Cité de la mer de Cherbourg (Cherbourg Sea Museum)

RESEARCH AND UNIVERSITIES

SNA'2003 : International Conference on Supercomputing in Nuclear Applications
Masters "Scientific and Technical Management of Radioactive Waste" and 'Cleanup and Dismantling of Nuclear facilities"