Andra

Andra is the French radioactive waste management organisation. Overall responsibilities include research on the national programme on a geological repository for high level and long lived, intermediate level radioactive wastes. It has also an industrial responsibility of operating the disposal facilities for short lived, low and intermediate level radioactive waste. After national and international review of the feasibility study on geological disposal presented in the “Dossier 2005”, Andra is tasked by the law (June 28, 2006) to pursue relevant studies to present a License Application for geological repository, to be evaluated by the authorities in 2015.
Website: www.andra.fr