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Our Energies Have a Future. a Future Without CO2 Our energies have a future. A future without CO2. SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT FACTS AND FIGURES 2005 contents The key sustainable development challenges for our businesses’ operations . 2 Deployment of our sustainable development initiative . 4 Our ten commitments . Fold-out Implementing the principles of the UN Global Compact . Fold-out Our sustainable development initiative Continuous improvement . 6 Stakeholder relations . 8 Sustainable Development in action Showing solidarity . 12 Sparking innovation. 15 Acting with humanity. 18 Sustainable Development in figures Innovation . 20 Technological risks . 21 Commitment to employees. 22 – Health and safety . 22 – Employees and training . 25 Protecting the environment . 27 – Radiological Impacts . 27 – Energy. 29 – Water . 30 – Air. 31 – Liquid releases . 32 – Conventional waste . 33 – Radioactive waste . 34 Reporting methodology. 36 Audit report on specific environmental and safety indicators for 2005. 38 Social indicators . 40 Environmental indicators. 42 Glossary . 44 Learn more . Inside back cover Yves Coupin AREVA Senior Vice-President of Sustainable Development and Continuous Improvement FOREWORD As we did last year, we report on our sustainable development initiative in our “AREVA in 2005” report and in this “Facts and Figures” supplement. “AREVA in 2005” shows how our sustainable development policy dovetail with our strategy and our management. The document describes the major energy challenges for which we are helping to provide solutions through our businesses. It provides an account of the key achievements of our AREVA Way initiative, which aims to introduce sustainable development into the daily routines of our units. It is necessarily a summary-level document. This “Facts and Figures” supplement is designed to provide factual information and more detail on our sustainable development performance. Heavily based on our non-financial reporting system, it provides an analysis of the key challenges facing our businesses. It also explains our performance improvement objectives, our achievements in 2005, and our upcoming milestones. New performance indicators have been added this year, mainly to improve reporting on the radiological impacts of our nuclear sites and on radioactive waste management. We also wanted to describe in detail how we organize our relations with stakeholders to give their expectations greater attention. We are well aware that we have much more progress to make on the path to sustainable development, in terms of both our approach and the way we report. That progress can only benefit from the comments and suggestions elicited by these documents, and we are very grateful to anyone who cares to share them with us. AREVA I 1 The key SALES REVENUE France 39% REACTORS AND Europe (excluding France) 25% SERVICES DIVISION Africa and Middle East 1% sustainable Asia-Pacific 4% North & South America 31% development PURCHASING Europe + CIS 83% REACTORS AND Asia-Pacific 1% challenges for SERVICES DIVISION North & South America 15% our businesses’ Other 1% EMPLOYEES France 63% operations REACTORS AND Europe (excluding France) 19% SERVICES DIVISION North & South America 18% The group’s businesses are diverse, and so are the sustainable development challenges they face. Each entity has to define and constitute performance improvement REACTORS AND SERVICES plans as part of the AREVA Way continuous improvement DIVISION process, and must report on progress during strategy and budget reviews. In deploying those action plans, each entity • Offer integrated services. related to global prospects • Widely adopt eco-design for a nuclear revival and to also contributes towards the achievement of the group’s approaches for products and the contribution of the EPR overarching objectives for health, safety, the environment services to take into account to that movement. the complete life cycle • Keep up R&D efforts on new and community involvement: of the components that generation reactors (high go into them. temperature and very high ➜ I Maintain a high level of nuclear and occupational • Continue to improve existing temperature reactors, safety. reactors, use natural breeder reactors, etc.) and resources more intelligently, on adapting them to new ➜ I Control the radiological and chemical impacts and reduce waste volumes requirements (better use of our releases. per kWh of power generated. of resources, emerging • Set in motion a plan to countries, new uses ➜ I Reduce doses of workers exposed to radiation strengthen human resources of nuclear power – high by adhering to the 20 mSv/year limit. and transfer skills to meet temperature heat, hydrogen, the growing workload desalination, etc.). ➜ I Reduce radiological impacts on members of the public to as low as possible. ➜ I Reduce water consumption. ➜ I Continue to reduce energy consumption. SALES REVENUE France 7% ➜ I Reduce the proportion of conventional waste TRANSMISSION & Europe (excluding France) 36% going into landfills. DISTRIBUTION Africa and Middle East 20% DIVISION Asia-Pacific 23% ➜ I Optimize the management of radioactive waste North & South America 14% from operations. ➜ I Participate in the economic and social development of the communities and foster their economic PURCHASING Europe + CIS 60% redevelopment at the end of operations. TRANSMISSION & Asia-Pacific 15% DISTRIBUTION North & South America 5% ➜ I Continue efforts to provide information and build DIVISION Other 20% consensus with key stakeholders. EMPLOYEES France 24% TRANSMISSION & Europe (excluding France) 37% DISTRIBUTION Africa and Middle East 1% DIVISION Asia-Pacific 24% North & South America 14% 2 I AREVA FRONT END DIVISION SALES REVENUE France 41% FRONT END Europe (excluding France) 22% • Minimize the environmental of fluorine, ammonia, DIVISION Africa and Middle East 2% impacts of mine and mill hydrofluoric acid, chlorine Asia-Pacific 1 10% North & South America 25% tailings disposal (landscape, (chemistry), CIF3 (chemistry, liquid effluents, radon enrichment), UF6 (chemistry, emissions) and ensure their enrichment, fuel) and long-term stability. zirconium (fuel). • Streamline water tapping • Ensure that depleted and PURCHASING Europe + CIS 74% and consumption in regions reprocessed uranium is safely FRONT END Asia-Pacific 3% where it is a scarce resource stored (chemistry, enrichment). DIVISION North & South America 21% (Niger, Sudan). •Reduce GHG emissions Other 2% •Reclaim mine sites after associated with releases operations to limit their of SF6 (Comurhex Pierrelatte) environmental impacts, and of N2O (Comhurex integrate them into the Malvési). landscape and ensure public • Minimize the environmental EMPLOYEES France 53% safety. impacts of nitrates contained FRONT END Europe (excluding France) 12% • Maintain a high level in the lagoons at Comurhex DIVISION Africa and Middle East 14% of safety in the utilization Malvési. Asia-Pacific 4% North & South America 17% BACK END DIVISION • Keep environmental releases • Keep radiation exposure to as low as possible through site cleanup workers as low continuing radioactive as reasonably achievable OUR CUSTOMERS: release reduction efforts. by adhering to the limit • Limit the volume of of 20 mSv/man/year. ENERGY operating waste that is • Maintain a high level of impratical for near-surface nuclear and occupational PROFESSIONALS disposal. safety during nuclear materials transportation. ➜ Manufacturers ➜ Nuclear power generators ➜ Other power generators ➜ Power system operators TRANSMISSION & SALES REVENUE France 53% DISTRIBUTION DIVISION BACK END Europe (excluding France) 21% DIVISION Asia-Pacific 19% North & South America 7% • Develop eco-design • Support plant reorganization approaches to optimize by reclassifying affected the environmental efficiency employees internally of products throughout their and externally and life cycle. by participating in local PURCHASING Europe + CIS 99% •Reduce direct emissions economic redevelopment. BACK END Asia-Pacific 1% of greenhouse gases linked • Develop a purchasing policy DIVISION to SF6 releases. that is consistent with the • Widely institute objectives of profitability environmental management and responsibility. and occupational safety systems. EMPLOYEES France 97% BACK END North & South America 3% DIVISION AREVA I 3 Our ten commitments A SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM STRUCTURED AROUND TEN MAJOR COMMITMENTS RESPECTING THE ENVIRONMENT ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION Limit our environmental impacts by reducing INNOVATION our consumption of natural Develop and harness resources, controlling best-in-breed technologies our releases and optimizing FINANCIAL to anticipate our customers’ our waste management. PERFORMANCE needs and increase Ensure the group’s our cost-competitiveness sustainability while complying with nuclear through long-term safety, occupational safety profitable growth. and environmental protection requirements. CUSTOMER GOVERNANCE CONTINUOUS RISK MANAGEMENT SATISFACTION Manage our IMPROVEMENT AND PREVENTION Listen to our operations responsibly Implement Establish and maintain customers, anticipate in accordance with a continuous the highest level of nuclear their needs, support the group’s values, improvement and occupational safety their growth, and assess and initiative based in all of the group’s and increase truthfully report on practices shared operations to preserve public and measure on our performance throughout and worker health, and their satisfaction. to shareholders the group. to protect the environment. and all stakeholders. COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT
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