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Both waste categories are slightly but contain long-lived radioelements In particular these scenarios are based hypotheses to understand for example radioelements would behave in the event of a energy nuclear uses vault sealing failure Virtual image of a drift in the Laboratory In 1999 the French government approved the decision to create a laboratory on clay site in Bure Meuse/Haute-Marne Drum containing vitrified waste As part of its research into the feasibility of a deep waste Andra is conducting a to acquire date on the clay medium is recruiting doctoral Ph Engineers create various scenarios to study repository Engineers create various scenarios to study safety It comes under the supervision of the French Research and waste management Environment and is responsible for the long-term of waste in France Each type of waste calls for specific Alongside this task pursues industrial research and information activities defined in the 2001-2004 four-year contract signed with supervisory Preference is given the following scientific disciplines Earth scicnces element chemistry materials science environmental science biosphere radioactives substances digital modelling Studies on projects radium-bearing graphite nuclear energy safety The for radium-bearing and graphite waste is currently at the investigation stage and constitutes an activity pertaining to the research mission treatments the Agency However pile-ups and reflectors are still present in the reactors while the already been stored at waste container operators CEA COGEMA Preference is given to the following disciplines scicnces element chemistry materials science environmental science biosphere and digital modelling Andra is spread over five sites the agency headquarters in Châtenay-Malabry Hauts-de-Seine the Manche waste facility Beaumont-Hague Manche received waste packages between 1969 and 1994 and is now in the surveillance phase the waste in Soulaines Aube which receives short-lived low- and intermediate-level waste the VLLW in Aube receives very-low-level waste the Meuse/Haute-Marne underground environmental waste laboratory in Bure Meuse set up to study engineers a deep geological waste repository in clay for wastes industry and long-lived intermediate-level waste 1994 short-lived low- and intermediate-level waste has been sent Aube waste which inherits the 25 of experience acquired by predecessor Resulting from the past uses of mostly between the beginning of 20th century and the 1970s and also from the remediation of old sites the waste referred to under the general designation of “radium-bearing waste” contain a high level waste concentration of radium Site characteristics are first studied the surface then in situ in an underground research laboratory environmental waste The use of generates waste classified according to two the of radioactivity which determines the levels of protection required to manage the waste effectively the lifetime of most of the present defining how long the waste will remain potentially harmful In January 2003 it officially entered its monitoring phase and will be placed under particularly active surveillance for 10 years Both waste categories are slightly but contain long-lived radioelements nuclear security waste job applications are updated on a yearly basis Geodynamics Evolution the Paris Basin long-term seismic risk erosion quantification and datation Line 1 transmutation studies The fission of a nucleus broken into two new nuclei by the impact of a neutron is a form of transmutation Studies in this area are generally finding solutions partition and transmute contained in waste Starting out as a simple in-trench site the facility saw rapid development General architecture the Meuse/Haute-Marne Underground Scientific activities Doctorands’ Day at industrials disposals mobilises scientific skills in a wide range of fields in particular earth materials and low level waste sciences calculation and modelling measurement and surveillance The programme calls on containers branch of danger earth sciences

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