Presentation of the program law of the 28 June 2006 relative to the sustainable management of radioactive materials and wastes

The french law of 1991, decided to define management solutions in the radioactive wastes management policy, is now over. The results of researches led to the promulgation of a new planing act, the law of the 28 June 2006. This law concerns the sustainable management of radioactive materials and wastes. It takes also in account a public debate, organized in September 2005 by the National Commission for Public Debate. The Law project architecture can be described in three main points: the implementing of a national policy of radioactive materials and wastes, a better transparency and democratic control and the implementing of specific modalities for the organization and the financing of spent fuels and radioactive wastes management. The law sets 2015 as deadline to submit the statutory application in order to commission a deep geological repository for high-level and long-lived radioactive wastes. (A.L.B.)