Question 23017 — energy and fuels

Summary

Ms. Émilie Cariou questions the Minister of Ecological and Inclusive Transition on the evaluation and provisioning of management expenses for all radioactive waste. The Industrial Geological Storage Center (CIGEO) project is, as the Court of Auditors recalled in July 2019, the “main item of future costs of nuclear waste management” (Court of Auditors, Thematic public report on the back end of the cycle nuclear fuel, July 2019). It therefore calls for particular vigilance from the legislator on the financial evaluation of this project and its implementation if necessary: ​​“the quantification of a precise amount is necessary because it makes it possible to set the financial amounts to be provisioned by nuclear operators to meet these future costs (charges and provisions, secured by dedicated assets)”. Nuclear operators (mainly EDF) estimated the cost of the project at 19.2 billion euros when the National Agency for Radioactive Waste Management (ANDRA) estimated it at 34.5 billion euros (subsequently revised to 30 billion euros - 2012). In 2016, the cost of the project was finally set at 25 billion euros by decree. However, the quantification of a precise, updated and realistic amount is essential because it allows the amounts to be set financial assets to be provisioned by nuclear operators to meet these future costs (charges and provisions, secured by dedicated assets). Indeed, the 1 billion increase in CIGEO's estimate would have an impact of 300 million euros on EDF's provisions and dedicated assets and around 25 million euros for Orano. As the Court of Auditors points out, operators are subject to ex post control by the authority administrative body formed jointly by the ministers responsible for the economy and energy. Therefore, she wishes to question him on the amounts immobilized by the operators, in order to know if these amounts have recently been updated and can now be immediately mobilized.

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