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The nuclear product burial project at Bure (Meuse) has been under study for twenty years. Highly sensitive, this site is subject to several controversies. The material will remain radioactive for several hundred years.
The village of Soudron (Haute-Marne) is placed under close surveillance. The small town of 40 inhabitants has almost as many gendarmes, who came to ensure the safety of the public inquiry commission, which collects the opinion of the inhabitants on the project of burying radioactive waste 500 meters underground. A laboratory was built for the occasion in a layer of clay, at great depth.
In this lab, experts are testing several storage methods, but not just that. “We studied two main families of things: the properties of the clay (…) and the digging methods which will not damage this clay “, explains Patrice torres of the National Agency for Radioactive Waste Management. For twenty years, opponents from neighboring villages have been mobilizing against this site, which they consider particularly dangerous. “We gave our opinion which was very unfavorable (…) the authorities did not take it into account”, testifies an anti-nuclear activist.
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