The Agence nationale pour la gestion des déchets radioactifs (French pronunciation: [aʒɑ̃s nɑsjɔnal puʁ la ʒɛstjɔ̃ de deʃɛ ʁadjoaktif]; ANDRA), or National agency for the management of radioactive waste is a 'public institution of an industrial and commercial nature' charged with the management of radioactive waste in France.

In 2003, ANDRA decided to record certain of its archives on permanent paper in resistant ink, with the aim of guaranteeing preservation of the information for a minimum of 300 years, for the purpose of compliance with decree No.

2003-30 of 10 January 2003, which obliges the Manche storage centre to permanently record information relating to its stored wastes after the site is closed.

According to estimates, dismantling of nuclear facilities will produce 2.1 million cubic metres of Very Low Level Waste (VLLW), which is more than three times the capacity of the Aube storage centre.

[13] In the 2017 finance bill, ANDRA's budget is charged to the budgetary programme of the Ministry of Ecology, under item 174 (Energy, Climate and post-mining).

In 1999, ANDRA was charged by the State with creating an underground laboratory in the commune of Bure, Meuse for the study of radioactive waste storage, and to operate it until 2006.

In December 2002, the Société générale pour les techniques nouvelles (then a subsidiary of AREVA) and COGEMA signed a framework contract with ANDRA for engineering studies relating to the project.

[23] The agency finances video-bloggers (Simon Puech, Anonimal, David Sheik), the Play Bac enterprise (2010 et 2017) and Usbek & Rica in order to promote the Cigéo project.