Innovative pre-disposal projects: fundamental research
The "Investing for the future" funding enables Andra to support innovative initiatives to optimize, upstream of storage, the management of radioactive decommissioning waste. The project presented on this page are such projects related to fundamental research.
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ndowed with nearly 47 billion euros, the Investissements d'Avenir program is an investment program of the French State, set up in 2010 to finance innovative and promising projects on the territory, with a principle of co-financing for each project.
Andra benefits, under the "Nuclear of Tomorrow" part of this program, from an allocation of € 75 million to develop innovative radioactive waste management solutions, upstream of storage: characterization, treatment, conditioning of Radioactive waste. By participating in these projects, Andra ensures that the constraints and requirements of storage are taken into account at the earliest, from the very design of radioactive waste treatment or conditioning
CERTYF
Combined effects of radiation, temperature and hydrogen on optical fibres and silica-based materials
manufacturing platform
CERTYF is a fundamental research project with the aim of improving the understanding of the basic mechanisms governing the degradation of optical fibres (loss of some optical properties via a radiation-induced attenuation phenomenon) in complex environments combining the following stresses: temperature (ambient temp. - 300°C), radiation (doses up to the order of MGy) and hydrogen (until the fibre has been saturated
with the gas).
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DECIMAL
Phenomenological description of corrosion and its impact on the durability of magnesium waste embedded in hydraulic binders
geopolymer matrix (200 L drum cut top to
bottom).
DECIMAL is a fundamental research project which aims to better understand the behaviour of geopolymer matrices in disposal conditions, and particularly the phenomena occurring at the magnesium/geopolymer interface and the consequences on the integrity/durability of the containers in which the waste will be conditioned. These data will then be used to prepare the conditioning of various magnesium alloys in geopolymer matrices.