Déconstruire l’héritage nucléaire : le démantèlement des installations du Commissariat à l’Énergie Atomique

By following the work of organizing and temporalizing the action, this article traces the development in the 2000s of a new dismantling policy; then its implementation within an operator, the French Atomic Energy Commission (CEA). In 2015, in response to criticism from safety authorities for recurrent delays, the CEA developed a new temporal strategy, differentiating between priority projects and mothballed projects: this makes it possible to respect the principle of immediate dismantling enshrined in the law while putting less urgent projects on hold. This new strategy, negotiated between safety authorities and operators, reconfigures their relations and their respective roles in developing this nuclear policy.