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Last modified: 2025-04-12 by olivier touzeau
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Presentation of ANDRA

The Agence nationale pour la gestion des déchets radioactifs (ANDRA), or National agency for the management of radioactive waste, is a 'public institution of an industrial and commercial nature' charged with the management of radioactive waste in France. Placed under the supervision of the ministers for research, the industry and the environment, ANDRA leads complementary industrial, research and public information missions. ANDRA's funding comes from a mixture of public and private sources, including a tax on producers of radioactive waste and commercial contracts with waste producers.

ANDRA is currently based at five locations [source: Wikipedia article]:

  • The head office, at Châtenay-Malabry (92) ;
  • Manche storage centre, at La Hague site (50), which accepted wastes from 1969 to 1994 and is now in care and surveillance;
  • Aube storage centre, in Soulaines-Dhuys (10), which accepts low-level waste and short-lived intermediate-level waste;
  • Morvilliers storage centre (10), which accepts very-low-level waste ;
  • Meuse/Haute Marne Underground Research Laboratory, at Bure (55), whose purpose is feasibility studies for the Cigéo deep geological repository for the disposal of high-level and long-lived intermediate-level waste.

Olivier Touzeau, 24 January 2025

Flag of ANDRA

The flag of the agency is white with the logo in a version including the motto: controlling radioactive waste ("la maîtrise des déchets radioactifs"): photo (2018).

Olivier Touzeau, 24 January 2025