Activities: conditioning and storage Types of waste: low- or intermediate-level short‑lived (LLW/ILW-SL), low-level long-lived (LLW-LL), intermediate- level long-lived (ILW-LL) Licensee: EDF Location: Saint-Vulbas (Ain département) Commissioned: 2020 The activated waste conditioning and storage facility (Iceda – BNI 173) was commissioned in 2020 and is operated by EDF. It was designed to accept, condition and store several categories of radioactive waste, including: ■ LLW-LL graphite waste from the decommissioning of the Bugey 1 Gas-Cooled Reactor (GCR) and intended for near surface final disposal; ■ ILW-LL activated metal waste from the operation of the EDF nuclear power plants in service and the decommissioning of the 1st generation NPPs and Creys-Malville; ■ certain ILW-SL waste, referred to as “deferred transfer”. This waste, which is intended for surface disposal, requires radioactive decay of several years to several decades, before final disposal in the Aube repository (CSA). The site received a first package of waste from the decommissioning of the Chooz A NPP (Ardennes département), in September 2020. Iceda Activities: conditioning, storage and disposal Type of waste: very low-level (VLL) Licensee: Andra Location: Morvilliers (Aube département) Commissioned: 2003 Industrial centre for collection, storage and disposal (Cires, Installation Classified for Protection of the Environment (ICPE), is devoted to: ■ disposal of VLL waste, since it was commissioned in 2003; ■ grouping of radioactive waste, from activities other than nuclear power generation, and the storage of some of the waste for which there is no final management solution, since 2012; ■ sorting and processing of radioactive waste, from activities other than nuclear power generation, since 2016. This centre covers a total area of 46 hectares, 18 of which are set aside for the disposal of VLL waste. It is authorised to accept 650,000 m3 of waste. The site runs the risk of seeing saturation of its capacity by about 2030. One of the medium‑term solutions proposed is to increase the maximum authorised storage capacity of Cires to more than 900,000 m3, without modifying the current footprint of the disposal zone while maintaining its level of safety. This expansion project is called “Acaci”. Cires Radioactive waste • 19
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