Le démantèlement des installations nucléaires en France

Bonnaure, Pierre

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“…Dismantling a nuclear power plant creates a significant amount of radioactive products: residual fissile materials, fission products, gas filters, activated metal structures, cleaning fluids, etc. (Bonnaure, 2011). In a magazine interview, Christine Bergé argued that the management of these products highlights the myth of nuclear decommissioning and a return to nature: "It might be dismantled but it doesn't actually resolve the problem of radioactivity.…”

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Myths and representations in French nuclear history: The impact on decommissioning safety

Kvalheim¹,

Haugen²

2013

Safety, Reliability and Risk Analysis

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The mythology surrounding atomic power, which makes reference to its omnipotent energy or devastating catastrophic fire, has, since the 1950s fed the collective imagination and public debate in nuclearised societies. Although it can be assumed these debates have little in common with the operational realities of managers, the recent accident at the Fukushima nuclear power plant has shown that in many countries the debate on the withdrawal of nuclear power may lead to political decisions that have an impact on the entire population. The decommissioning of many operational plants (whether because nuclear power is being withdrawn, or because plants have become obsolete) has had an impact on the representations shared by actors in these organizations.Decommissioning operations have the effect of creating a tension between ideas of "deconstruction" and those of production. In this special phase of the plant's life cycle, interactions between actors play a key role in the construction of a shared system of representations, which is based on both a new organizational culture and a shared safety culture. These shared representations are at the origin of a cognitive consensus that must facilitate action and decision-making within organizations.This article is a historical study of representations of nuclear energy in France from the post-war period to the modern day. It first highlights the strength of myths and representations found in the design and construction phases of nuclear technology. The second part of this article shows how myths and representations affect decisions that are taken during the decommissioning of facilities. Finally, the third part of this analysis describes the consequences of these systems of representation on the morale of actors involved in decommissioning and the construction of a shared decommissioning culture.1.

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Myths and representations in French nuclear history: The impact on decommissioning safety

Kvalheim¹,

Haugen²

2013

Safety, Reliability and Risk Analysis

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Aux marges du nucléaire français : ce que veut dire démanteler l’industrie minière de l’uranium.

Brunet¹

2021

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Sur un demi-siècle, l’industrie minière de l’uranium en France a produit une part importante du combustible nucléaire, notamment en Limousin. L’article analyse ses activités de démantèlement-délaissement, avec leurs enjeux et problèmes. Débutées dans les années 90, ces activités s’exercent de manière ambivalente : tendues entre les mondes minier et nucléaire. Leur réception sur le territoire, comme question environnementale, montre des périodes chaude et froide qui aboutissent à un démantèlement qui ne peut être que partiel. Deux parties structurent l’article. La première situe l’industrie dans sa production et son ancrage territorial à travers deux temporalités : celle du « temps béni de l’uranium » jusqu’au milieu des années 70, puis celle du « temps disputé du nucléaire » où l’on assiste à une montée en puissance industrielle, qui reconfigure la production et le territoire. La seconde partie se focalise sur les activités de fermeture, de démantèlement et de réaménagement. Face aux élus locaux et aux groupes associatifs qui tentent, chacun, de prendre en charge la question environnementale de l’après-mine, la COGEMA se transforme en entrepreneur environnemental tout en préemptant la mémoire industrielle. L’État, pour sa part, est contraint de saisir la nucléarité des restes. Des conflits ne cessent de ponctuer ce processus que les dispositifs de concertation n’arrivent pas à dépasser. Finalement la question environnementale se délite, due aussi bien à la faiblesse des acteurs face à l’exploitant qu’à l’impossibilité de trouver une solution satisfaisante. Le délaissement demeure dès lors indéfiniment partiel.

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Le démantèlement des installations nucléaires en France

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Myths and representations in French nuclear history: The impact on decommissioning safety

Myths and representations in French nuclear history: The impact on decommissioning safety

Aux marges du nucléaire français : ce que veut dire démanteler l’industrie minière de l’uranium.

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