Radioactive Waste Management www.nea.fr 2010 2010 Radioactive Waste Repositories and Host Regions: Envisaging the Future Together Radioactive Waste Repositories and Host This 7th Forum on Stakeholder Confidence (FSC) workshop focused on the territorial implementation of France’s high-level and long-lived intermediate-level waste management programme. Sessions addressed the French historical and legislative context, public information, reversibility, environmental monitoring and the issue of memory. Amongst the participants were representatives of local and regional governments, Regions: Envisaging the civil society organisations, universities, waste management agencies, institutional authorities and delegates from 13 countries. This report provides a synthesis of the workshop deliberations. Future Together Synthesis of the FSC National Workshop and Community Visit Bar-le-Duc, France 7-9 April 2009 OECD Nuclear Energy Agency ISBN 978-92-64-99128-6 Le Seine Saint-Germain – 12, boulevard des Îles F-92130 Issy-les-Moulineaux, France Tel.: +33 (0)1 4524 1015 – Fax: +33 (0)1 4524 1110 -:HSTCQE=^^VW][: E-mail: [email protected] – Internet: www.nea.fr NUCLEARENERGYAGENCY Radioactive Waste Management ISBN 978-92-64-99128-6 Radioactive Waste Repositories and Host Regions: Envisaging the Future Together Synthesis of the FSC National Workshop and Community Visit Bar-le-Duc, France 7-9 April 2009 © OECD 2010 NEA No. 6925 NUCLEAR ENERGY AGENCY ORGANISATION FOR ECONOMIC CO-OPERATION AND DEVELOPMENT ORGANISATION FOR ECONOMIC CO-OPERATION AND DEVELOPMENT The OECD is a unique forum where the governments of 30 democracies work together to address the economic, social and environmental challenges of globalisation. 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FOREWORD The 7th Forum on Stakeholder Confidence (FSC) National Workshop and Community Visit was held on 7-9 April 2009 in Bar-le-Duc, France. It was organised with the assistance of the CLIS (the Local Information and Oversight Committee of the Bure Laboratory) and the financial and logistical support of Andra, France’s National Agency for the Management of Radioactive Waste. Amongst the participants were representatives of local and regional government (including six mayors and numerous local elected officials from five countries), civil society organisations, universities, waste management agencies, institutional authorities and some 20 FSC delegates from 13 countries and the European Commission. The workshop focused on the territorial implementation of France’s high-level and long-lived intermediate-level waste management programme. Sessions addressed the French historical and legislative context, public information, reversibility, environmental monitoring and the issue of memory. The workshop also included a visit to the site of the underground laboratory located at Bure- Saudron, a reception by the Mayor of Bure and a dinner debate with the president of a local industry organisation. The synthesis is provided under the responsibility of the NEA Secretariat. It relies on verbatim notes taken during plenary sessions and accounts by assigned delegates (with thanks to Andra and to the Chairs of the round-table sessions). This synthesis has also been supported by the presentations and manuscripts kindly provided in good time by all the speakers. All these documents, in French or in English, are accessible online through the FSC web page (www.nea.fr/html/rwm/fsc/). The editorial team at the NEA was comprised of Claudio Pescatore, Claire Mays and Kristin Sazama. 3 Acknowledgements The FSC wishes to thank the numerous French stakeholders who contributed significantly to the success of the workshop. The FSC gratefully acknowledges the programme committee participants: • CLIS: Robert Fernbach, Jean Coudry, Roland Corrier and Jean-Marie Malingreau, with the assistance of Benoît Jaquet. • Andra: Bernard Faucher and Gérald Ouzounian, with the assistance of Marc-Antoine Martin. • NEA: Claudio Pescatore and Claire Mays. Benoît Jaquet, CLIS Secretary, and Bernard Faucher, Andra International Affairs, attentively proofread the manuscript. 4 TABLE OF CONTENTS Foreword ............................................................................................................................................... 3 Introduction to the workshop ................................................................................................................ 7 The French historical context ............................................................................................................... 9 Local public information ...................................................................................................................... 15 Reversibility: expectations and motivations ......................................................................................... 21 Local visit: economic support and regional development .................................................................... 29 Environmental monitoring and the issue of memory ............................................................................ 33 External rapporteur’s observations and lessons learnt .......................................................................... 39 Closure .................................................................................................................................................. 41 International perspective ......................................................................................................................