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Environmental protection

A man takes a water sample at a rehabilitated site, Vendée, France.

Without energy, there can be no life. To preserve long-term energy supplies, we must manage our planet’s resources carefully and minimize their environmental impacts. AREVA is committed to reducing what it consumes and what it releases, and to minimizing in the extreme its residual impacts on the natural environment and on the public.

a woman perform analyses in laboratory

Controlling environmental risks

AREVA is committed to reducing its environmental footprint. Its policy in this regard is based on six important commitments.

 the first centrifuge cascade inside the Georges Besse II facility

Improving the group’s eco-efficiency

To protect its environment, AREVA has set ambitious goals for reducing its consumption of water and energy, its production of waste, and its liquid and gaseous releases.

an aerial view showing the before and after shots of the site rehabilitation.

Managing environmental legacies

All industrial activities have environmental impacts. AREVA is committed to reducing them to as low as reasonably achievable by continuously monitoring the environment around its sites so that corrective action can be taken quickly if needed.