Bituminous nuclear waste packages
(WorldNews France)

Bituminous waste Nearly 80,000 packages of nuclear waste have been processed by bituminisation since 1966. 50,000 of these bituminous waste packages are in principle to be disposed of in the Cigéo project facility. In its 11 January 2018 opinion on the safety options dossier (DOS) submitted by Andra for the Cigéo project, ASN expressed reservations concerning the disposal of these bituminous waste. ASN considered that priority should be given to `efforts to neutralise the chemical reactivity of bituminous waste packages. At the same time, studies to...