Construction and decommissioning waste is included in this report, if its management falls under the responsibility of the EDF group. Regarding distribution network operator Enedis, waste reporting is done on a rolling-year basis, from 1 November N-1 to 31 October N.
Indicators pertaining to “short-lived Very Low Level radioactive Waste (VLLW) from operations and from decommissioning” take into account the actual volume of the short-lived VLLW directly evacuated from the Industrial Gathering, Storing, and Stockpiling Centre (Centre industriel de regroupement, d’entreposage et de stockage – CIRES) from the production sites;
Indicators pertaining to “Short Lived Low and Intermediate Level radioactive Waste (short lived LLW and ILW) from activity and from decommissioning” take into account the actual volume of the short-lived LLW and ILW waste directly evacuated to the Aube Storage Centre (CSA) from the production sites.
In each case, those volume correspond:
Since 2016, the reduction in the volume contributed by treatment before storage (by ANDRA) has also applied to short-lived VLLW and also to packages sent by Centraco, where applicable. It includes the reduction in volume resulting from treatment before storage (the case of super-compacted waste).
For the indicator “Long-Lived High and Intermediate-Level solid radioactive Waste”(HILW-LL), the packaging of the waste is taken into account in the calculation.
Given the technical constraints linked to processing operations, the packages are produced approximately ten years after the fuel has effectively generated waste.
The indicator is thus an estimate that relies on the long existence of current practices of packaging of Long-Lived waste that projects the current packaging ratio into the near future (number of packages effectively created following the processing of one ton of fuel). This ratio essentially depends on the mixtures used to optimise the operations:
Radioactive waste data from Framatome in France is similar to EDF’s dismantling waste and so can be consolidated. Internationally, Class A waste (USA and Belgium), comparable to very low level waste (Germany), are not consolidated with French figures. Radioactive waste is shipped and handled in accordance with domestic regulations in force in each country.
The data relating to the indicator “Intermediate-Level radioactive Waste” of nuclear activities of EDF in the UK, are founded on the inventory of radioactive waste produced during the year, established by the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority. This is an estimate of the annual volume of waste that will be considered and classified as Intermediate-Level radioactive Waste at the end-of-life of the nuclear generation sites. These estimates include packaging necessary to allow the transport of wastes off site. All of the Intermediate-Level radioactive Waste is temporarily stored at the nuclear generation sites while waiting for a national decision on their final processing. An update of the national inventory was performed in 2019 and the inventory was published on the official site of the “UK Radioactive Waste Inventory”. “Low Level radioactive Waste” includes desiccants that are sent for processing in the form of Intermediate-Level Waste in compliance with applicable regulations.
Since 2011, the population considered in data collection is all employees who have a non-suspended employment contract with one of the Group’s companies. For entities having left the consolidation scope during the year in question:
The workforce includes employees shared between EDF and ENGIE. An employee working 50% for EDF is counted for 0.5 in the published workforce.
The “Other arrivals” and “Other departures” indicators are therefore not included in hirings, resignations or dismissals. They include in particular:
The 2020 value for this indicator are subject to reasonable assurance check by
KPMG SA.
At the Group level, the “average number of absences per employee and per year” is the sum of absences due to sickness, counted in days worked in proportion to time worked by employees and absences due to work-related accidents, counted in calendar days.
In its calculation of absenteeism, EDF includes absences for the following reasons: absences due to sickness, work and travel related injuries as well as absences due to other reasons such as unpaid leave and unjustified absences. Absences related to company and union activities, pre-retirement leave and maternity leave are not included. The number of hours worked used in the calculation of the absenteeism rate is the number of hours theoretically worked. Absences due to part-time work on health grounds are taken into account to the tune of 50% of the contractual working time.
In 2020, the number of occupational illnesses is published at Group level according to the definition shared by all the Group’s subsidiaries, i.e. the number of employees present on the 31 December having declared an occupational illness during the fiscal year that has not been rejected by CPAM.
In countries in which regulations do not impose any mandatory declaration of the number of employees with disabilities, the reported data are provided on the basis of voluntary statements of employees.
Skills development expenditure corresponds to all expenditure incurred for the training and professionalisation of employees (whether or not present at the workforce on 31/12) between 01/01 and 31/12 (based on the completion dates of the actions concerned).
