French Decommissioning Feedback Experience and Lessons Learned

摘要

The French nuclear operators (CEA: research, EDF: utility and AREVA: fuel cycle) have experience in decommissioning of nuclear facilities, goes back many decades and relates to many installations of very different types. The first substantial operations began inside the French Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) in the late fifties, sixties and seventies, and included, for instance, the first plutonium plant at Fontenay-aux-Roses (total decommissioning in 1958) and a number of small research reactors and critical mock-ups such as Cesar and Peggy at Cadarache, and Minerve at Fontenay-aux-Roses (with civil engineering structures cleaned up but not demolished).