Bure (meuse)
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| region | Grand Est | |
| Department | Meuse | |
| Arrondissement | Bar-le-Duc | |
| Canton | Ligny-en-Barrois | |
| Community association | Haute Saulx and Perthois-Val d'Ornois | |
| Coordinates | 48 ° 30 ' N , 5 ° 21' E | |
| height | 298-399 m | |
| surface | 18.39 km 2 | |
| Residents | 84 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 5 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 55290 | |
| INSEE code | 55087 | |
 Lavoir in the center of the village |
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Bure [ byːr ] is a French commune with 84 inhabitants (January 1, 2017) in the Meuse department in the Grand Est region (until 2015 Lorraine ).
geography
The municipality is located on the upper Orge , a tributary of the Saulx in the south of the Meuse department, about 33 kilometers southeast of Bar-le-Duc and 64 kilometers southwest of Nancy . The south-western border of the municipality is also the border with the Haute-Marne department .
Population development
| year | 1850 | 1882 | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2008 | 2014 |
| Residents | 346 | 290 | 135 | 119 | 106 | 105 | 92 | 85 | 94 | 82 |
| Source: Cassini and INSEE | ||||||||||
Nuclear waste repository
About one and a half kilometers south of the center of the village, the Bure nuclear waste repository is being built in an open field for the most highly radioactive waste, in particular spent nuclear fuel from France. The French nuclear waste agency ANDRA has been investigating the suitability of the 130-meter-thick clay sediment stock that extends here since 2000 . A positive location factor is the low population density. Protests by residents have so far not gone beyond a purely local character. Both ANDRA and the local government are trying to prevent resistance from the population in the poorly populated and structurally weak region with massive financial allocations. In addition to French environmentalists, activists in neighboring countries like Germany have been mobilizing against the project for years. Two people were seriously injured in a landslide in the underground laboratory in early 2016, one of them fatal.
literature
- Le Patrimoine des Communes de la Meuse. Flohic Editions, Volume 2, Paris 1999, ISBN 2-84234-074-4 , pp. 627-629.
Web links
- Aerial photos of the place in: leuropevueduciel.com (January 8, 2012)
Individual evidence
- ↑ France is digging at the nuclear waste repository . Wirtschaftswoche , June 5, 2012; Retrieved August 25, 2017
- ↑ What to do with the nuclear waste? Deutschlandfunk , May 28, 2013; Retrieved August 25, 2017
- ↑ Dead in accident in planned nuclear waste storage facility . Neue Zürcher Zeitung , January 27, 2016; Retrieved August 25, 2017