Radioactive Waste Repositories and Host Regions: Envisaging the Future Together

Synthesis of the FSC National Workshop and Community Visit, Bar-le-Duc, France, 7-9 April 2009

ISBN : 978-92-64-99128-6

This 7th Forum on Stakeholder Confidence (FSC) workshop focused on the territorial implementation of France’s high-level and long-lived intermediate-level waste management programme. Sessions addressed the French historical and legislative context, public information, reversibility, environmental monitoring and the issue of memory. Amongst the participants were representatives of local and regional governments, civil society organisations, universities, waste management agencies, institutional authorities and delegates from 13 countries. This report provides a synthesis of the workshop deliberations.