The storage of radioactive wastes in the 'Macron law'. A legislative rider uncovered by the Constitutional Council

As the French constitutional council censored several articles of the so-called 'Macron law', this article more particularly addresses one of these censored article, article 201 which addressed the notion of reversibility of radioactive waste storage, and the commissioning conditions of the industrial centre of geological storage (Cigeo). This article has been censored for procedure-related reasons, but also put some aspects of environmental law and nuclear law into question. The author comments these aspects which concern the duties of the French agency for nuclear safety (ASN) and the conditions under which the pilot phase of the project of waste landfill is performed, but also an opposition to the Environment Charter. In a second part, the author comments how the constitutional judge addressed these issues, and more particularly how these arrangements about the storage of radioactive wastes has been considered as a so-called 'legislative rider' and finally censored