Babylon: R&D program for French Bituminized Waste Products acceptability in deep geological repository

Pierre Vigneron (1) , Jean-Baptiste Champenois (2) , Paul Jourda (1) , Celia Alameda Angulo (3) , Sylvie Granet (4) , Stéphan Schumacher (5)

1 CEA-DES (ex-DEN) - CEA-Direction des Energies (ex-Direction de l'Energie Nucléaire)
2 LCBC - Laboratoire d’étude des Ciments et Bitumes pour le Conditionnement
3 ORANO
4 EDF R&D ERMES - ElectRotechnique et MEcanique des Structures
5 ANDRA - Agence Nationale pour la Gestion des Déchets Radioactifs

CEA, Orano, EDF and Andra launched in 2020 a four-party R&D program aimed at improving the robustness of the safety assessment of bituminized waste disposal. Indeed, the program will consolidate knowledge of the behaviour of Bituminized Waste Products in order to confirm the design of the disposal cells (design and operation) at Cigéo.

Keywords: bitumen; co-precipitation sludge; radioactive waste; R&D program; disposal; repository

Domains: Chemical Sciences; Material chemistry

Pierre Vigneron, Jean-Baptiste Champenois, Paul Jourda, Celia Alameda Angulo, Sylvie Granet, et al.. Babylon: R&D program for French Bituminized Waste Products acceptability in deep geological repository. International Conference on Nuclear Fuel Cycle GLOBAL 2022, SFEN, Jul 2022, Reims, France. Technical sessions-Topic6_Waste Management_6a-Strategy, Options. ⟨cea-03847147⟩