CHICADE nuclear facility: a collaborative technological platform, dedicated to the expertise and characterisation of nuclear wastes

CHICADE (CHimie CAractérisation DEchets – Chemistry CAracterization Wastes) is one of the nuclear facilities Energy Division French Alternative Energies and Atomic Commission (CEA/DES). The CEA/DES responsible for structuring piloting research programmes on energy at CEA. It involves its own institutes those other divisions. part Directorate Nuclear Dismantling, Services Waste Management. Laboratory Expertise Destructive characterization set up in Basic Facility N° 156 called “CHICADE” where heavy equipment used. laboratory brings together both skills means characterization, using destructive methods waste packages. also carries out measurements whole package (gas release measurements, leaching tests). After a short presentation CEA Cadarache Centre, this publication aims to present facility types expertise that are conducted there, i.e., measurement diffusion coefficient, inventories, test, permeability measurement, gas radiochemistry, imaging. In conclusion, with unique equipment, allowing exhaustive be carried single location, benefiting from cross complementary methods.