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[en] For 30 years, the French National Agency for Radioactive Waste Management (ANDRA) is in charge of the radioactive waste management and acquired a good knowledge relating to the control of low and intermediate level waste produced by nuclear power plants (NPP), the waste characteristics and the waste conditioning. The integrated waste management system for low-level radioactive waste in France implemented by ANDRA covers all stages from waste generation to final disposal at the Centre de I'Aube near surface facility. ANDRA defined a quality assurance program for waste management that specifies the level of quality to be achieved by solidification and packaging processes, defines quality control requirements and defines waste tracking requirements, from waste generation through final disposal. Verification of quality of waste packages is implemented at three levels of the waste management system. The first one consists of inspections of waste packages at the generator's premises and audits of the quality assurance organization of the waste generator. The second level of verification consists of the waste tracking system. It allows identifying and tracking each waste package from the step it is fabricated to its final disposal at the ANDRA site. The third level of verification is obtained by mean of non-destructive and destructive assays of waste packages. These assays allow to verify generator compliance with ANDRA's technical specifications and to investigate the accuracy of physical and radioactive characteristics reported to ANDRA by the generator. (author)
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International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna (Austria); International Union of Producers and Distributors of Electrical Energy, Brussels (Belgium); Nuclear Energy Institute, Washington, DC (United States); OECD Nuclear Energy Agency, Paris (France); [627 p.]; Feb 2001; [9 p.]; International symposium on technologies for the management of radioactive waste from nuclear power plants and back end nuclear fuel cycle activities; Taejon (Korea, Republic of); 30 Aug - 3 Sep 1999; IAEA-SM--357/25P; ISSN 1562-4153; 
; Also available on 1 CD-ROM from IAEA, Sales and Promotion Unit. E-mail: sales.publications@iaea.org; Web site: http://www.iaea.org/worldatom/; 1 fig., 1 tab
; Also available on 1 CD-ROM from IAEA, Sales and Promotion Unit. E-mail: sales.publications@iaea.org; Web site: http://www.iaea.org/worldatom/; 1 fig., 1 tab