ANDRA ASNR notes the continuing positive dynamic within the team at the National Radioactive Waste Management Agency (Andra) responsible for the examination of the creation authorisation application file for the Cigéo deep geological repository, submitted on 16 January 2023. The technical examination of the application was completed in 2025. The Cigéo project 1. https://www.asnr.fr/actualites/lasnr-publie-son-avis-sur-la-demande-dautorisation-de-creation-de-cigeo The technical examination of the Cigéo creation authorisation application continued in 2025, notably with the third and final meeting of the Advisory Committee of Experts for Waste (GPD), during which the long-term safety of Cigéo was examined. This technical examination phase ended with the publication of ASNR’s opinion on the Cigéo creation authorisation application(1). The regulatory consultation phase, which began at the end of 2025 with local authorities, will continue in 2026 with the holding of the public inquiry. ASNR commends Andra’s responsiveness in answering the questions raised during examination of this dossier, which has enabled the expert assessment and the technical examination to proceed in accordance with the planned work schedule. In its opinion, ASNR considers that Andra has acquired a sufficient knowledge base concerning the baseline data used for the relative safety assessment and that the safety case for the operating and post-closure phases, established on the basis of this knowledge, is satisfactory at the creation authorisation application stage. This safety case must be supplemented with a view to commissioning (limited to the pilot industrial phase). In 2025, ASNR also continued to monitor Andra’s management of the Cigéo project. Operation of Andra’s existing facilities ASNR considers that operating conditions in Andra’s facilities remained satisfactory in the areas of nuclear safety, radiation protection and environmental protection in 2025. It also underlines the good quality of the safety assessments produced by Andra, and the fact that the periodic safety reviews of the disposal facilities are carried out rigorously. The evaluation of the long-term impacts on flora and fauna of the radiological and chemical substances in the disposal facilities remains a subject for which management needs to be consolidated by Andra. It will be examined, in particular, as part of the examination of the conclusions of the third periodic safety review of the Aube repository (CSA), due to be submitted in 2026. 26 ABSTRACTS – ASNR Report on the state of nuclear safety and radiation protection in France in 2025
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