SPIRAL, the Radioactive Beam Facility at GANIL (Caen-France) is in operation since September 2001 and has already accelerated several radioactive beams. The paper presents the machine and the main characteristics of the first beams produced. We describe also the new project which is presently under discussion at GANIL:SPIRAL 2. This new machine will use either an electron or a deuteron linac to produce heavy fission nucleons far from the valley of stability.