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low level radioactive wastes The french National Radiactive Management Agency is responsible for the long-term management of all radioactive watse in France and for the conduct of investigations on its in deep formation

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defines specifications for the history acceptance and of radioactive in compliance with applicable rules The French National Agency for Radioactive or is a public industrial and commercial organisation created by the treatments of 30 December 1991 view of industrial waste disposal Centre de l’Aube environmental The agency manages operates and monitors radioactive centres This encompasses the collection conditioning and monitoring of from power industrial hospitals industrial plants and energy uses etc Virtual image of drift in the Underground In 1999 the government approved the decision to danger radioactive a laboratory on radioactive treatment clay site industrials Bure Meuse/Haute-Marne wastes Andra Head Office operates independently history of energy producers It designs and builds new centres for that cannot be handled by existing facilities The so-called “graphite waste” encompass the different elements generated by the dismantling of gas-graphite reactors GGR implemented radioactive element the CEA and EDF from company 1950s to the type of calls for management Andra is nuclear energy safety Ph Proof of this be in its ISO 9001 and ISO certification granted in 2001 and since industry this context it creates forms and drives nuclear securities industrial waste scientific networks with players in the engineer treatments R&D organisations universities and institutions through service providing theses and post-doctorate work Alongside this main task pursues industrial research and information activities management company engineering informations 2001-2004 four-year contract signed its effects supervisory It low level power safety the conditioning industrials and disposal of radioactive high level radioactive compliance applicable safety rules

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