A summary of ANDRA's research into disposal of radioactive waste in a deep geologic repository, examining both clay and granite.

A report documenting ANDRA's research on deep disposal of radioactive waste, examining both clay and granite formations.

Presentation given by François-Michel Gonnot at the Stockholm Talks on October 2, 2013 regarding Cigéo, the French Geological Disposal Project.

Annual report by ANDRA, the French National Radioactive Waste Management Agency, regarding its activities in 2011.

Annual report produced by ANDRA, the French National Radioactive Waste Management Agency describing its activities in 2010.

Newsletter produced by ANDRA, the French National Radioactive Waste Management Agency.

Newsletter produced by ANDRA, the French National Radioactive Waste Management Agency.

Newsletter produced by ANDRA, the French National Radioactive Waste Management Agency.

Newsletter produced by ANDRA, the French National Radioactive Waste Management Agency.

Newsletter produced by ANDRA, the French National Radioactive Waste Management Agency.

Newsletter produced by ANDRA, the French National Radioactive Waste Management Agency.

Newsletter produced by ANDRA, the French National Radioactive Waste Management Agency.

Newsletter produced by ANDRA, the French National Radioactive Waste Management Agency.

ANDRA's report on its activities in 2008.

Long-term radioactive waste management (RWM) involves large and long-term research and development programmes in essentially all countries with civil nuclear programmes. Such programmes develop through different phases from basic research to more focussed applied research and development (R&D) and finally to the design and siting of proposed solutions. Internationally basic principles for the conduct of these programmes, basic safety principles and guidance on how to comply with them have largely been agreed upon.

The purpose of this report is a comparison of the structures for nuclear waste management in France, Sweden and UK. The source materials for this comparison are studies carried out in each of these countries by Syncho Ltd. over the past 5 years. The Swedish structural review was sponsored by SKI and SSI, and carried out as a pilot study during the years 1996 and 1997 (Espejo & Gill, 1998) as part of the RISCOM I project.

This report is part of the research project International Socio-Technical Challenges for Implementing Geological Disposal: InSOTEC (see www.insotec.eu), funded by the European Commission under the Seventh Framework Programme. This report is a contribution to Work Package 1 of the project, which aims to identify the most significant socio-technical challenges related to geological disposal of radioactive waste. To achieve this objective, a comparative analysis of 14 national programmes will be performed.

On 10 March 1999, the Netherlands signed the Joint Convention on the Safety of Spent Fuel Management and on the Safety of Radioactive Waste Management, which was subsequently formally ratified on 26 April 2000 and entered into force on 18 June 2001. The Joint Convention obliges each contracting party to apply widely recognized principles and tools in order to achieve and maintain high standards of safety during management of spent fuel and radioactive waste.

The first world wide review of the geological problems in radioactive waste isolation was published by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in 1991. This review was a compilation of reports that had been submitted to a workshop held in conjunction with the 28th International Geological Congress that took place July 9-19,1989 in Washington, D.C.

The first world wide review of the geological problems in radioactive waste isolation was published by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in 1991. This review was a compilation of reports that had been submitted to a workshop held in conjunction with the 28th International Geological Congress that took place July 9-19,1989 in Washington, D.C.