Nuclear Waste: Favourable Opinion of the Committee of Inquiry for Cigeo
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The project, which has been discussed and controversial for more than 30 years, aims to bury 500 m underground, from 2050, some 83,000 m3 of nuclear power plant waste to remain highly radioactive for several hundreds of thousands of years. The committee of inquiry has given its favourable opinion, given in August, with two reservations and two recommendations. The reservations aim to "strengthen Parliament's control over the pilot industrial pha…
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The controversial project of burying highly radioactive waste near Bure in the Meuse received a favourable opinion after a commission of inquiry, one more step before a possible authorization by the government.
The controversial project of burying highly radioactive waste near Bure in the Meuse received a favourable opinion after a commission of inquiry, one more step before a possible authorization by the government.
The Cigeo project aims to bury the most dangerous nuclear waste at a depth of 500 metres in a layer of clay on the Meuse and Haute-Marne border. This clay rock, formed more than 160 million years ago, has an exceptional self-sealing capacity and can slow the migration of radionuclides for hundreds of thousands of years. The project will cost between 29.8 and 37.5 billion euros and raises major challenges: ensuring the reversibility of the site a…
After two months of consultation between May and July, the Public Inquiry Committee on the application for authorization to set up the Cigeo project by Andra in Bure has just issued a favourable opinion with two reservations and two recommendations. More than three thousand contributions have been collected.
As a result of the radioactivity emitted by nuclear energy residues, 83,000 m3 of highly radioactive waste has been waiting to be buried for 3 decades. The Cigeo landfill project has just obtained a favourable opinion. Nevertheless, reserves and oppositions to the project remain.
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